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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by wmf on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:13PM (#18126132)
The PC BIOS doesn't know you want 2560x1600 for your desktop...

That's why we switched to UEFI around a decade ago; I'm pretty sure it doesn't have all those problems. So a modern PC can boot directly into the correct resolution.

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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:23PM (#18126204)
UEFI stands for “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface”, where “Firmware” is an ancient African word meaning “Why do something right when you can do it so wrong that children will weep and brave adults will cower before you”, and “UEI” is Celtic for “We missed DOS so we burned it into your ROMs”.

–Matthew Garrett (he wrote a lot of the Linux kernel UEFI implementation)

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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by sometimesijust on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:03PM (#18126684)
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/250840/
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Re:Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29 by jaclaz on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:28AM (#18140772)
Thank you for the Matthew Garret quote, very nice "alternate" definition of UEFI.
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