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Just installing Fedora Silverblue and realised that if you boot into the USB disk in legacy mode, it does a legacy install. If you boot into it in UEFI, it does a UEFI install.
Wish this was made clear in the interface and you could actually choose what you wanted. I mean, I really think UEFI should be the default no matter what these days with the option to change it if you really want to, no?
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Performing a legacy install on UEFI platforms or performing a UEFI install on BIOS platforms sounds moot. You can't boot it after installation (Unless you enabled CSM for BIOS install which, unfortunatelly made it much more complex to boot a hybrid medium). 
It should be made clear on the interface, though. Yes.
@Orca My experience: BIOS allows both legacy boot and UEFI. BIOS instructions (incorrectly) state that legacy boot must be turned on to boot from USB. When legacy boot is on the USB stick is shown under both legacy and UEFI sections. The latter, for me, was less apparent so I chose the first option by mistake. Anyway, this is why the first option for folks switching to Linux should be to buy a PC with it preinstalled. Installing an OS will always be an enthusiasts game.
BIOS instructions (incorrectly) state that legacy boot must be turned on to boot from USBThat sounds like some statement to deflect customer service question like "Why my bootable USB disk suddenly refused to boot on the new machine I just bought from you". Really asshole-ish, vendors shouldn't even consider putting it there.
Many recent computers sold on the market already have no legacy boot support, though. So I guess this situation may improve later?