I’m getting an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 along with a Vega 56 for a new PC I’m building. I intend to put Fedora 30 on this PC, and I’ve been considering the MSI B450 Tomahawk to glue everything together. However, I’ve come to understand that MSI’s BIOS isn’t always the greatest and can have issues booting Linux (at least with distributions that aren’t Ubuntu), so, I ask, would you care to share your experiences with AM4 motherboards and Linux, and which one(s) you would and wouldn’t recommend for my use case? I’ve had a hard time finding good information about what works and what doesn’t when using Linux.
Well, it also sort of depends on what your budget is… I’m on an X570 Gaming 7 and it’s great with fedora, but that is quite a bit pricier then the Tomahawk…
Pretty much all am4 boards should work well with linux.
Because most controllers used on them are generically used on pretty much all boards.
There are a few exceptions like on the X570 some cheaper boards use realtek lan instead of intel.
Or some more expensive boards use a Aquantia 10gb nic and a new wifi 6 /BT adapater,
and or an additional 2.5G realtek lan like the Crosshair 8 Hero has.
But i suppose that those will likely just work fine on linux as well.
Maybe @wendell could tell more about those new Wifi 6 / BT modules and linux support.
And the Aquantia nic’s.
I have the MSI X570s tomahawk max wifi and it’s not registering any internet with most up to date bios and mint 20.3 as my operating system. Everything else runs just not internet.
I’m running Debian Testing on an Asus PRIME X570-P here and it’s stable as a phone booth. Last year I’ve experienced like two reboots when running wine and maybe three times wine (again) hasn’t let me go to the next console and kill the foreground process so I had to do a hard reboot. Only one pcie 4.0 x16 though, if that’s important.