cryzed

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide being aware of the fact that I'm not an expert regarding the things outlined below, however I made my best attempt. A few people in IRC confirmed it worked for them and the results looked acceptable.

Attention: After following all the steps run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache as root, this prevents various gdk-related bugs that have been reported in the last few hours. Symptoms are varied, and for Cinnamon the DE fails to start entirely while for XFCE the icon theme seemingly can't be changed anymore etc.

Check the gist's comments for any further tips and instructions, especially if you are running into problems!

Screenshots

Results after following the guide as of 11.01.2017 13:08:

mjg59

commit 3f5e3bdbb45bc2cd9ae95972420eb11b0340f120
Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@coreos.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 1 13:31:00 2016 +1100

    Block most UEFI variable deletions
    
    Some systems appear to become upset if certain UEFI non-volatile variables
    are delted, to the point of no longer POSTing successfully. For a short-term
    fix, let's just block deletion of most variables while we figure out a
    better approach.

masak

Ok, I geeked out, and this is probably more information than you need. But it completely answers the question. Sorry. ☺

Locally, I'm at this commit:

$ git show
commit d6cd1e2bd19e03a81132a23b2025920577f84e37
Author: jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net>
Date:   Sun Apr 15 16:35:03 2012 +0200

When I added FIRST/NEXT/LAST, it was idiomatic but not quite so fast. This makes it faster. Another little bit of masak++'s program.