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.
It’s not so much about motherboard brand as it is about the chips used on any given model. For example, ASUS makes some boards with Intel i225-v ethernet, and others with Realtek RTL822x ethernet. The Intel chip is notorious for stability problems on all platforms, and although I think the linux drivers eventually managed to work around them, the boards with the Realtek chip avoided those problems entirely.
With that in mind, I suggest you look at a few key chips used on any board you’re considering, and search linux forums for problem reports with their model numbers. In particular:
Sometimes you can find comparison charts for such things, like this one for socket AM5 boards
Also, it’s nice to have a board that can update its own BIOS from a flash drive, rather than requiring a Windows program to do it.