I think I’ve actually touched CD/DVD for the last time in 2012/2013… I should be fine
Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
It’s probaly not needed at this point. You can get flash drives crazy cheap.
And it’s getting harder to find decent optical drives. USB external ones are utter buttgarbage.
Any computer that meets the minimum requirements for Fedora will support booting from USB. The only reason left to boot from a DVD is if you need read only media for security purposes.
Or you know, MP3s on DVD for the car.
Do you boot Linux from your music player?
Sounds like a project to me!
I mean I still use the iso attached to a virtual cd-rom to create virtual machines
Yeah but that’s not limited to physical DVD size constraints.
Sorry, the issue is size? Like, “we can’t fit into these clothes so we’re gonna go Jabba the Hut”, all naked and corpulent?
Lmfao, yes though the install ISO getting too large to fit on standard dvds
So we need to remind them again what ‘minimal’ means? Getting to be every decade now.
So boot floppies are right out?
And so are other derivatives. No cardoard either.
Damn it, on the very day my DVD burner arrived, right after the weekend when I switched to Fedora Atomic Sway. Oh this universe.
This doesn’t mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won’t stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
