I’m looking into buying a new system and I wonder which of all the mainboard manufacturers you recommend for Linux in general and gaming in particular? Which ones have the best Linux driver support and which ones publish open source drivers? Are AMD or Intel chipsets preferred?

Also general best bang for the buck recommendations are appreciated!

And yes, I have googled this and I have some ideas, but I’m interested in what my fellow Lemmies think. And I also want this information to be here on Lemmy instead of Reddit or AI generated blogs. If you feel offended by this, you’re totally free to not reply and also down vote this post.

  • DesolateMood@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Uhh someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think the motherboard cares what os you use nor does it much (if any) impact on gaming performance. In fact, the only “Linux compatible” piece of hardware I would suggest is an amd GPU, although even that isn’t really necessary anymore as several distros (PopOS, Nobara, and bazzite off the top of my head, probably more) have isos that come bundled with Nvidia drivers

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      There are certainly considerations here:

      • Ethernet - Intel tends to have fantastic Linux support, so I highly recommend Intel NICs
      • WiFi - often user replaceable (I upgraded my Intel WiFi on my b550 ITX mobo because it was faulty), so feel free to roll the dice
      • audio - less of an issue these days, but still worth checking

      And Nvidia drivers aren’t hard to install on pretty much any distro, the problem is that they’re not FOSS, so you could have issues with kernel compatibility (esp on rolling distros) and Wayland (largely seems solved?).

    • sith@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Actually, it is not true from what I’ve learned. For example, Intel is about to push chipset/bios upgrades to boost the performance of the new Core Ultra 9 285k. And that kind of driver can at best be open source and in the upstream kernel or at worst closed source and only installed by some windows only bloatware.