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Uefi it's better especially for modern hardware. If it's something released the last two years you might not have the choice of bios after all. Justify and explain. How better? Andy on this site as a visitor I have noticed hundreds of cases on which people type code-commands on terminal as a soluti...

Termy these work as couples uefi-gpt and bios-mbr.
You can use a gpt as storage on bios but you cannot install an os on gpt witout uefi and the original post obviously speaks of a new install.

Something is wrong with your connection/internet provider.

Is it still snowing there?

Don't scare people like that! I thought that some new serial issue or linux virus appeared!

If var/log is so big then something malfunctios and creates big logs. Or it's a log bug. You can delete but sooner or later will grow again.
Check also timeshift images.

"It sure surprises me to hear this. I haven't done it recently, but I always thought resizing a partition would work without a problem. I'll be interested to hear if it works for the OP."

I've done it 6-7 times. One failure. It's not safe when we talk of data.

The efi partition is less "breakable" than mbr plus the much better handling of partitions (how many) and also size.

Since android phones appeated people learned to work in non windows ways. If you give to someone a linux pc he will be just fine. Installing it's the difficult part.

A week before I was wondering how to do it. Now my pc died but on my new build I will install mint again so it's useful.

Imagine you are a pc. With junk food you multiply the dust in you.
Since you are aware of the problem I guess you can stop it again.

Yes, it rocks but my hardware died...

No, you cannot do it safely and even if you do it and the system looks to work ok on the way you may meet corrupted files or functions. I've been there.

Uefi it's better especially for modern hardware. If it's something released the last two years you might not have the choice of bios after all.

The most simple and useful thing about linux!