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How to choose the best Linux hardware for PC Building? (linux-hardware.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Psyhackological@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I see the raise of popularity of Linux laptops so the hardware compatibility is ready out of the box. However I wonder how would I build PC right know that has budget - high end specification. For now I'm thinking

  • Case: does not matter
  • Fans: does not matter
  • PSU: does not matter
  • RAM: does not matter I guess?
  • Disks: does not matter I guess?
  • CPU: AMD / Intel - does not matter but I would prefer AMD
  • GPU: AMD / Intel / Nvidia - for gaming and Wayland - AMD, for AI, ML, CUDA and other first supported technologies - Nvidia.

And now the most confusing part for me - motherboard... Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports "high end" hardware?

Let's just say also a purpose of this Linux PC. Choose any of these

  1. Blender 3D Animation rendering
  2. Gaming
  3. Local LLM running

If you have some good resources on this also let me know.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports "high end" hardware?

As far as I know, the highest-end motherboard that supports Libreboot is an Opteron -- not Epyc, Opteron -- dual-socket server board from about a decade ago.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In a short - no. I was thinking of not using proprietary firmware on motherboard but I see that is not possible.

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Might be in future. Amd want to use open source agesa.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty sure the msi pro -a z690/z790 has coreboot support (12/13/14th gen Intel)