Booting Ubuntu on a UEFI computer

[Tom H]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 18/02/18 22:41, Bob wrote:
>>
>> I have purchased a new computer, it is my first UEFI computer so I am
>> new to this.
>
> Having been through this a few months ago on a new Dell XPS 15, and
> had endless pain from every Linux distribution I tried, I have only
> one piece of advice: disable UEFI, enable Legacy Boot, and use that.
>
> The people who write the drivers and the installers need our support,
> and they need time and resources, just like they did to get existing
> systems to the stage where they install using grub pretty much without
> blinking. I'm sure that one day it will be possible to install Linux
> painlessly on a UEFI sytem, but today is not that day.

Utter rubbish! Especially with an XPS 15! Because (1) I installed
Ubuntu on an XPS 15 using EFI one year ago (2) Dell sells an XPS 13
with Ubuntu pre-installed and I doubt that the EFI setup's different
enough (if at all!) on the XPS 15 for an EFI installation to fail.

I'd say the opposite. Having installed Linux on at least a dozen
laptops with EFI, I'd advise not to disable EFI because the installer
(and later the OS) work perfectly with EFI.