Intel and AMD CPUs are officially supported in the linux kernel... AMD's official graphics driver is part of the linux kernel. NVIDIA offers official graphics drivers for linux, although they are proprietary.

I'd have wasted a lot more time trying to debug what was going on with Mint if they hadn't documented the need for a 6.11 kernel on their website, for example...

6.11 kernel

So... in other words... it literally is supported by the linux kernel...

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was thinking of motherboards. Some of my systems have really fucking annoying power problems. If I can't get this thing to suspend properly, for example, I can go back to Framework and try to get them to fix it. My cobbled together desktop? I'm on my own.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The only thing I could see being an issue with a desktop motherboard are built-in wifi, bluetooth, or sound chips, and that's really not been an issue to worry about for years. Complete non-issue for any Intel chipsets, which are basically all officially supported. I think otherwise I really only see like Realtek, which is supported. At worst you just need to install proprietary drivers.

Sounds like framework's motherboard has poorly implemented ACPI, but this would not be an issue for manufacturers for typical desktop hardware (ASUS, ASRock, MSI, Gigabyte)

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I'm not complaining about Framework's HW there; my old desktop (which uses an ASUS MB, IIRC) had that issue. I'm on my own figuring out WTF is going wrong between the CPU, the kernel, quirks of the motherboard, BIOS, GPU -- or whatever else might be causing it to enter a boot loop if I try to suspend and then resume the system.

If I had a similar problem with the Framework system, I could go to Framework and say "Fix it!" and expect to get help because they officially support the configuration. That's my point.

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Last two mainboards I bought had incompatible wifi cards. The first of those also had some weird issue with aspm that meant it ran hotter than it should have needed to.