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The BIOS is part of your operating system and pee is stored in the balls. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by JTskulk@lemmy.world to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world
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This was a Lenovo. Now I'm wondering if Windows or Linux has a better BIOS.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean it is part of the System running on that machine. So it is technically part of the OS?

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'm having a crisis here thinking about this lol. It's a part of the system that is your machine if you consider the system to be the entire use of the computer. But it is not a part of the operating system on the drive. It's a lower level operating system that identifies your hardware's capabilities and functionality and has sets of instructions on how to boot from your storage. Computers are really just many many layers of abstraction. Separating the abstractions into layers gets pretty complex. But if you create a virtual OS inside of your storage device's OS, it is its own OS. It has no knowledge that it's a virtual machine.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

If you asked somebody which operating system they were using they would say Linux or Windows etc. The BIOS is not part of these.