William Morder composed on 2018-06-25 21:22 (UTC-0700):
Beware of UEFI/EFI ... don't know if your devices have such new "features", as it was hard for me to keep track of the different devices, the various issues, and their place in your own scheme of things. But if you try to install a Linux system on a newer machine that has UEFI, it will "protect" you from the dangers of Linux and hackers. There are ways to disable UEFI, though.
Like anything, to use it safely some (re-)education is involved, getting the hang of new paradigms. I have two UEFI PCs. When I started composing this I was doing my 7th (multiboot, adding OS #3 to an M.2 device) installation in UEFI mode, *buntu 18.04, to become Tubuntu, to follow-up on a year-old, still open TDE bug, but it's already finished and rebooted.