Tutorial: How to set up a Windows/Linux Lite dual-boot with UEFI fully enabled.

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Hi Mike.  Are you going to keep this going for the 4.0 series since Linux Lite will still not support UEFI PCs?

No, I'm not going to look into UEFI for LL4.0 - in a nutshell, there's no point.  While one still has the choice of booting in BIOS (CMS) mode, on UEFI laptops, there is no advantage to be gained in using UEFI.  In fact, as I said to you elsewhere, on the Sneek Peeks forum thread, there are compatibility issues between at least some Linux firmware and UEFI, so why use UEFI?  It's a no-brainer. Also, many see the installation of UEFI in motherboards as a ploy by Microsoft/Intel to limit the end-users' choice of operating system, the market being unfairly biased at the outset towards the Windows OS - so there's unfair market competition / freedom-of-use issue at stake here too.

On the Sneek Peeks thread you also said a couple of things:

 
(1) I don't want to have take the time to reformat the drive and then reload Windows before loading Linux. 

Well, if you don't want to do this, then of course that's entirely your choice, but you're not going to resolve your problem ...

(2) Most Linux distros support UEFI now. 

That's true, but it doesn't mean UEFI is good or beneficial just because many distros adopt it ... I should add that all distros also support BIOS/CMS installations (AFAIK). I remember when I first started out with LL, I thought a bit like you (which prompted me to do this UEFI dual-boot tutorial) but, as time has gone on, I see UEFI more and more as a retrograde step ...

Hope this clarifies things a bit for you. I agree, it would be good if Jerry had a post, accessible at the start of the forum, summarising his valid reasons for not going down the UEFI route. It would be useful for new LL migrants from Windows OS, who maybe don't have the insight or experience.