As of release 37, Fedora has deprecated legacy BIOS installs [0] - you can still boot and presumably upgrade an existing OS install over the network, but you can no longer install it fresh. I think the biggest issue with this decision for me is the lack of awareness around e-waste and re-purposing of old hardware that may have many years of useful life left. I know I am not alone in that I mostly buy refurbished or older computers. I keep them for years and maintain them or replace parts in them as needed, and only junk them when they are truly dead. Fedora even offers an LXDE spin which is touted as useful for older hardware: "LXDE is not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim. A main goal of LXDE is to keep computer resource usage low. It is especially designed for computers with low hardware specifications like netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers." [1] I guess not _too_ old, then. Luckily, there are plenty of other OS choices that do support legacy BIOS installs. [0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS [1]: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/lxde/