alt Hacker NewsI'm curious why you think it's overcomplicated.
That is: this seemed like the first 3 minutes of the first lecture on an freshman OS course, or similar in any book on systems. The complication you refer to - is it just from the clutter of adjacent words (EFI, grub, kmod maybe?)
Try to read a document/book on the linux boot process and it is VERY complicated if you actually want to know all the steps from POST to a tty login. You can strip some of it away but focusing on one path (UEFI vs BIOS) or just ignoring the instruction pointer movements.
I agree, little nuggets like this are valuable even if know it already.