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I am not sure what makes a motherboard Linux-friendly... I guess fwupd integration with LVFS would be nice? Still, I am happy with my MSI B650 Tomahawk, since I can just put the latest firmware into an exFAT formatted thumb drive and update with it. All my laptops in the past had only supported firmware updates with Windows-only executables. I think I really should check out Framework for my next laptop.
Having to use windows when upgrading firmware is very Linux unfriendly.
In this regard, I think Gigabyte just has you put the firmware in some accessible location (like on a USB drive) and update from BIOS?
Every (non-laptop) motherboard I've ever had (Gigabyte, MSI, Asus) has that functionality
My mobo (asrock) does this as well, I just assumed it was the default for all of them
Well, for example, my MOBOs Ethernet requires the Realtek out of tree drivers (at least it still did on 6.11), which don't always compile on the current kernel. Ironically, the WiFi works fine.
That's unfortunate. I got lucky with MSI.
Msi pro b650-s wifi also works great but my previous asus board was bad on all oses