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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: 2) by tibman on Monday April 28 2014, @09:00PM
I've had problems with NVIDIA's network chipsets in linux. Intel network cards have always worked well for me though. Nice link but it does seem really biased towards Intel. That little gaming machine absolutely crushed its Intel equivalent in games. All the other hoops they had it jump through seemed to be for no other reason than to make it do things it wasn't designed to do. The best part about the article, imo, was their experiment with SteamOS. It didn't boot : / Ubuntu worked but the linux drivers had no concept of switching video cards based on usage. I can't blame them much on that last bit as it is sort of niche. But certainly a key feature of that little gaming machine. Needs work!
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