Is there a reason for me to use UEFI instead of legacy/grub?

GPT

UEFI has its own lightweight bootloader, and all it takes to link it to Linux after a kernel update is copying the vmlinuz into /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. Also, you don't get that retarded GRUB screen that nobody gives a shit about except Arch retards who think they're 1337 cause they put an anime background on it.

>>61521035
don't need UEFI to use GPT
i use GPT on all my disks, and i don't own anything that supports UEFI

>>61521438
>and all it takes to link it to Linux after a kernel update is copying the vmlinuz into /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
So I have to do this after every kernel update?

>>61521773
I though this was done automatically on most distros

>>61521773
>>61521438
>>61521795
Or you use efibootmgr and add directly the kernel as an entry.

>>61521023
>What are the benefits of UEFI?
Very slim to absolutely none.
It's another half-baked standard from Intel that not only didn't solve the major problems of BIOS, but added a lot of new ones. You can easily google that if you're interested.

In practice the main benefit is being able to boot from a specific file.

Also, GRUB2 supports UEFI so you can continue using it. The setup is slightly different but I'm sure it's covered in your distro's documentation.

>>61521023
Hardware support, newer devices literary won't work with legacy BIOS.

>>61522978
It literally changes ways of how the hardware talks to the drivers/software and vice versa, there are performance increases for storage and graphics hardware.

>>61523053
Any benchmarks on that?

Isn't UEFI better for virtualization?