I pronounce it the way I was taught when earning my A+ cert ten years ago, “you-fee”. This is how I’ve always heard it pronounced by other professionals. The only time I’ve heard it pronounced differently is by non-professionals.
That being said, I still use the term “BIOS” when referring to “the firmware interface” for the simple fact that if you call it a UEFI and it’s a BIOS, someone will smugly correct you. Other way around, nobody bats an eye.
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, U-E-F-I.
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 🧡
I pronounce it the way I was taught when earning my A+ cert ten years ago, “you-fee”. This is how I’ve always heard it pronounced by other professionals. The only time I’ve heard it pronounced differently is by non-professionals.
That being said, I still use the term “BIOS” when referring to “the firmware interface” for the simple fact that if you call it a UEFI and it’s a BIOS, someone will smugly correct you. Other way around, nobody bats an eye.
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, U-E-F-I.
Give it time. “tracert” used to be “tray-cert” in my mind for the longest.
I’m saying ‘trace-ert’ inside my mind, simply because that 's way cooler that ‘trace route’ or whatever.
Its been over 20 years, lol f-stab ain’t going anywhere.
Depends on the OS for me. Tracert is the way you say it, trace route is the way I say traceroute.
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.
How do you pronounce fsck?
F-sec
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.