Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?
They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that
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Yoo-e-ef-eye you heathen.
But in all seriousness, yeah…
You’re 100% correct.
But I’m gonna keep calling it BIOS anyway.
It does seem to serve the same purpose, an “OS” under the OS so 🤷
I don’t think the OS is the same in BIOS. It is “Basic Input Output System”
Common misconception, it actually stands for Basic Initial Operating System /s
Which operates the system
Seems like it should be BI/OS, then, haha.
Something something bi erasure
U-E-F-I
EUGH, that’s like a whole extra SYLLABLE
(but this is also how I say it)
Ué fí(o)
Or just uefi.
üfi, got it.
“you-fee”
This breaks down for professionals that are self taught though. For example, I still to this day, say in my head "F-Stab " for fstab, instead of “F-S-Tab”, and various other terms I learned when i was learning linux myself when I was 13. Didn’t understand at the time that it stood for filesystems table, so f-stab is how I pronounced the term in my head. In the UEFI case, I’ll just pronounce each letter at a time, to say the name. U-E-F-I.
How do you pronounce fsck?
ef es check
Give it time. “tracert” used to be “tray-cert” in my mind for the longest.
Depends on the OS for me. Tracert is the way you say it, trace route is the way I say traceroute.
Its been over 20 years, lol f-stab ain’t going anywhere.
nginx, “ing - inks” I’m terrible at license plate puns, too.
I still pronounce it “n-jinx” even though I know now that’s wrong.
That’s how everyone pronounces it in Russian, the native language of Igor Sysoev.
nginx rhymes with eugenics.
You’re not wrong, but Jesus…
Being inside my mind is a curse, I admit. Also, I am technically wrong. According to their marketing page, it’s “engine x”.
like the guys that say interpreter and the other guys that say interpreter
I know it’s file system tab. Don’t care I WILL fucking stab this piece of shit. Stupid cursed file.
🤔
I thought about referring to her when describing the pronunciation but decided to go with something more universally understood (and I’m sure at least on person thinks it rhymes with “yuppie”).
But I do appreciate the reference.
I don’t. Would you care to explain please? I’ve seen this character posted a number of times in this thread.
The character is Yuffie Kisaragi from ‘Final Fantasy VII’, a JRPG game for PS1 from 1997 with astonishing staying power. I’m guessing the recent-ish quasi-remakes for PS4 have something to do with that, but FF7 has been in the popular culture for the last thirty years pretty much non-stop.
If it helps, I worked at a BIOS company on one of the early UEFI firmwares (with Intel, who created the thing!) and we called it U-E-F-I, and same also at the major PC vendor I later worked for.
Much later I really cringed the first time I heard someone from MS say yoo-fi, but I’ve had to come around 😅 So I personally blame M$!
No worries that I’ll ever fuss at you over BIOS vs UEFI unless we’re dealing with a bootloader. Just make sure you have your boot order set right, and your secure boot settings the way you like (assuming UEFI), and the bootstrap fairy will bring your OS 🧡
Wiffee and saytuh irritate the shit out of me too.
They missed an opportunity to call it yiffi
It’s like when someone says clip instead of magazine. Everyone knows what your talking about, stop being pedantic.
Not quite the same thing. BIOS and UEFI both refer to the firmware interface. There can only be one, they’re mutually exclusive, and getting one instead of the other will rarely matter.
On the other hand, “clip” and “magazine” both refer to different things which have different purposes. Some firearms have clips and magazines. Sometimes the magazine is detachable, like on some SKSs, sometimes it isn’t, like on some Mausers. Sometimes a clip is required to load, like on an M1 Garand, sometimes it isn’t, like on a Mosin. If you ask for one when you mean the other, that will almost always matter because having the correct one is usually the difference between being able to reload and not.
Found the ammosexual.
Found the asshole.
How DARE someone take an interest in firearms and ammunition. What a MONSTER I must be.
Do you accuse archers of getting off to arrows? Do you also think mechanics like to fuck wrenches? Does everyone who speaks intelligently about computers get off to graphics cards too? Fucking weirdo.
Funny how Lemmings will smugly proclaim that X, Y, or Z doesn’t define them, then turn around and label others for liking the “wrong” things.
Ugghh I’m going to load some bullets into my shotgun and snipe you with it.
if you can run a UEFI computer by putting a bios on it, I’ll accept your comment
If you can find a computer that needs that, I’ll accept yours.
In French we just say UEFI.
(ok without joke, we say it letters by letters, they all sound different)
I thought UEFIs would sound like: ue vais
No, it’s more like “Hue (without the H), Euh, Eff, Eee”
I’m not good at describing sounds…
That’s too many vowels.
U-E-F-I You ain’t got no alibi You ugly Eh! Hey! You ugly!
Same with SSL instead of TLS for some reason
You-ayy-fee
Ooeefee
I’d been saying BIOS for decades before UEFI became the norm. Yes, I know it’s no longer BIOS. No, I don’t care. As far as I am concerned, anyone pedantic enough to nitpick about it is doing me a favor. They are identifying themselves as someone I don’t want to be around.
When it does matter, my pronunciation is “you-fee”
That’s how I feel about GB vs GiB (and TB vs TiB).
GiB and TiB only exist because advertisers suck.
Ya, I treat that the same way. If it really matters, I know the difference and can use the correct one as needed. It’s far more often that the difference doesn’t matter and the only reason to use Gibibyte is for the “look at me, I’m trying to sound smart” effect. Yup, marketers fucked up gigabyte/megabyte/etc. But It’s close enough for most conversations.
For a while, they really were both. From that same UI, you choose for it to function as a legacy BIOS or a modern UEFI, and not just a CSM option. It probably ran UEFI underneath, but it’s not something that’s a clear cutover. This was around 1st Gen Intel Core, and might’ve been limited to Intel motherboards.
Ooh fee
I think BIOS has just morphed into meaning the firmware interface, nobody calls it UEFI. Everyone does indeed just say BIOS, which is okay.
Yeah, I mean. It’s just a Basic Input/Output System.
Like asking for a bandaid. Everyone knows what you mean, and asking for one and getting a generic bandage isn’t going to matter.
ADHESIVE MEDICAL STRIP
In America. Bandaid is not a word outside there, what is it? A brand name?
Yet it’s named in such a way, people maybe would be able to guess what it is
Yet if you guessed bandage, that’s not an actual bandage is it? From the other comments, I’ve learned it’s a ‘plaster’ or adhesive dressing.
Yes, a name brand of adhesive bandage, just like Kleenex or Velcro or Xerox.
A “plaster” in the uk
I like UEFI because of the way it sounds. I bet most non-native English speakers agree on it’s pronunciation.
Uwee feee
