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Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers?

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Sucks but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Desktop Linux has a pretty laughable market share. Geeks are already difficult to deal with as consumers, freetards are even worse as they eventually turn on most of their supporters, in some cases even carrying out nasty little campaigns for some perceived betrayal. Makes companies like Nvidia wonder why they even bother.

    1. Re:Sucks but... by qbast · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually low margins is a good reason to stay away from Linux nerds as far as possible. They provide tiny minority of income and over average support costs, which makes selling to them net loss. I would not be surprised if some cheaper brands started explicitly lock out Linux/BSD.

  2. Re:LOL SteamOS by Nyder · · Score: 1, Troll

    Look, SteamOS isn't going anywhere or doing anything. Valve isn't going to make a fourth Console work, even by outsourcing the hardware work to a bunch of volunteers.

    How much do you get paid to make these posts?

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