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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Hold on, I think I didn't explain myself properly.
I've never had any problem, the problem that existed years ago was that you had to manually change things to accomodate UEFI, while installing a Linux distro.
For example, while installing Ubuntu you had to press a key during the splash screen and boot there. It was a simple fix that you had to do while booting the ISO, but it was something not widely known.
Unfortunately not, but I've read that this was a thing, since I didn't want to fry my €1400 laptop I did this simple thing. Later I've seen that this problem was fixed, but I'm talking about years ago, 2019 or so.
And? Windows 7 shits itself on UEFI systems. It's in a sort of limbo when it comes to UEFI support. It has a UEFI compatible version of Windows Boot Manager, but it'll usually hang the computer as soon as it's done booting.
For your last thing, the only thing that can do that is a firmware update.