Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers?

storkus writes: The release of Haswell-E and a price drop on Devil's Canyon has made me itch for a PC upgrade. However, looking around I discovered a pair of horror stories on Phoronix about the difficulties of using Linux on a multitude of motherboards. My question: if MSI, Gigabyte, Asus (and by extension Asrock) are out, who's left and are they any good? I'd like to build a (probably dual-boot, but don't know for sure) gaming and 'other' high-end machine with one of the above chips, so we're talking Z97 or X99; however, these stories seem to point to the problems being Windows-isms in the BIOS/UEFI structures rather than actual hardware incompatibility, combined with a lousy attitude (despite the Steam Linux distro being under development).

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Re:Sucks but...

[gweihir]

And you think with the low margins the manufacturers have these days, they can do without that share? Wrong. Also people using desktop Linux are typically in the higher income levels and can not only pay for quality, they can recognize it, unlike the sheep. Of which you are clearly one. An aggressive sheep is still a sheep. Wolves are always a minority. What you are also completely forgetting is that a lot of these will actually run as servers. You know, because Linux does well as server, quite unlike Windows. But you would not know or understand that.