Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers?

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 1, 2014 @04:09PM from the roll-your-own dept.

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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Phoronix = fail by Gothmolly · 2014-09-01 16:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

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Buy Gigabyte, their shit is rock solid.

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Re:Self-extracting EXEs by graphius · 2014-09-02 01:18 · Score: 4, Insightful

I agree with your post, but I am a bit concerned that your accounting skills need some work...

LibreOffice does about 98 percent of what I need to service my clients, but that last five percent has to be handled, too