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According to Phoronix, getting support from motherboard manufacturers can be downright hostile for linux users. Some go as far as requiring Microsoft Windows to be installed before getting to speaking terms. With TYAN as about the only motherboard maker (that I am aware of) to fully support linux, my question is: "Do any of you use a TYAN motherboard in a typical desktop use case? If so, what were your experiences, pro and con?
Followup question is: Have any motherboard manufactures changed their tune recently regarding support for linux users?
With the recent end-of-life of free Windows/XP support, Valve's work on its Steam OS, and Android's large market share, how close are we to the point where a user can just install linux (or a BSD variant) and it just works? What hardware (old and new) has been especially problematic for you? What has been your greatest challenge and/or frustration?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28 2014, @03:41PM
Problems with desktop motherboards these days tend to be limitations of chipsets, not limitations of Linux drivers. Recently I purchased an AMD motherboard with basic AMD graphics. I also purchased nVidia discrete graphics card. Alas, it is absolutely, positively not possible to use both AMD graphics and nVidia graphics at the same time with this motherboard. Only one graphics device is enabled by the chipset at any one time - onboard or PCI-X. And they only enable both if you use AMD graphics - not sure why that matter!? I think this is AMD 780G.
There are other problems about terribad onboard crap-RAID provided by many of the motherboard manufacturers. This of course only works properly in Windows. But this is not a real loss of functionality as software RAID in Linux is far more flexible solution.
Basically, the only functionality that one needs to check Linux support are onboard sensors (if there are any!) and NIC.