UEFI and LEGACY in BIOS?

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Hi, I just happened to watch my pc's bios today and I saw that it was in Legacy mode, not UEFI, after some googling of what it is, I came to know that legacy is outdated and i should have installed my OS in UEFI mode. Can you tell me exactly what the two modes are and the advantages of UEFI over LEGACY and how to actually install an OS in UEFI rather than LEGACY. I'm just confused
 
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UEFI is a newer type of bios which operates with its own firmware.
Legacy makes UEFI operate as a very basic BIOS without this firmware, meaning that legacy is great for older OSes that didn't have UEFI in mind during development such as Windows 7, XP, Vista.
If you're using Windows 10, you're going to want to just swap over your BIOS to UEFI and boot from there.
Reinstall if there's any issues, and you should be fine.

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UEFI is a newer type of bios which operates with its own firmware.
Legacy makes UEFI operate as a very basic BIOS without this firmware, meaning that legacy is great for older OSes that didn't have UEFI in mind during development such as Windows 7, XP, Vista.
If you're using Windows 10, you're going to want to just swap over your BIOS to UEFI and boot from there.
Reinstall if there's any issues, and you should be fine.

 
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Thanks, So when I will re-install my OS in a new SSD( which I'm going to do soon), I'll do the following right?:

1: change bios mode from legacy to UEFI,
2: Install Windows 10,

Correct me if I'm wrong
 
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