Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason

I like UEFI because of the way it sounds. I bet most non-native English speakers agree on it's pronunciation.

Uwee feee

Ooeefee

Ooh fee

You Eee Eff Eye

ÜFI

U-E-F-I

meanwhile flashing the bios is still called flashing the bios

Lately I've been bending people's names in cursive writing style out of coathanger wire.

The last name I made, I did not post. Why? I have no clue how to pronounce it..

Ogbuefi

You're 100% correct.

But I'm gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.

BIOS sounds good. It's got that cold hard logic stamped steel ring to it.

"We've got the update the BIOS". Okay. Everyone understands that.

The BIOS boots before the OS. Got it.

"Make sure to configure your UEFI"

"My what?"

I think BIOS has just morphed into meaning the firmware interface, nobody calls it UEFI. Everyone does indeed just say BIOS, which is okay. You can be more specific when it matters, which is basically never in the mass market.

When describing the boot process, bios. When configuring some CPU or memory setting, bios. When talking about some specific boot menu config, uefi.

Nah. For me that was the "version" of bios in which I could finally use my mouse to select stuff

Uweee Eff Aye I met a girl online that literally called it Uni Extee Feee because it rhymed and sounded better to her and it drove the other techs she knew crazy.

U-E-F-I

You-ee-fee

You-ee-ef-eye

Just pronounce each letter. Am I doing it wrong?

systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

This will cause a Linux machine to reboot directly into the UEFI. I know it's not groundbreaking but it can be really handy if you use fast-boot. At least your days of pecking the Delete key during POST will be over.

Windows does this too, though I've forgotten the method.

I say "yoofee", but it hasn't mattered so far because I'm pretty sure I've never actually said it to anyone.

I pronounce it the way I was taught when earning my A+ cert ten years ago, "you-fee". This is how I've always heard it pronounced by other professionals. The only time I've heard it pronounced differently is by non-professionals.

That being said, I still use the term "BIOS" when referring to "the firmware interface" for the simple fact that if you call it a UEFI and it's a BIOS, someone will smugly correct you. Other way around, nobody bats an eye.

Ideally, I pronounce it "Libreboot."

U-E-F-I You ain’t got no alibi You ugly Eh! Hey! You ugly!