Motherboard and graphics card recommendations for building a Linux Box

[Aaron Jones]

Times have changed. Most stuff works out of the box with little tinkering. What do you plan to do with the box?

Cryptographics?
Machine learning?
Posting memes on facebook and trolling 2channel?

Space requirements?

I use multiple Intel NUCS and I love them but if you are looking for a behemoth box to support your 50 card collection of ASICS, well I can point you that way too. 

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 11:07 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I planning on building a new machine fairly soon, I want the box to
> primarily run Linux and I'd like to make sure that I can use as few
> binary drivers as possible. Any recommendations for motherboards
> etc...
> 
> I last built a PC probably about 20 years ago and finding a board and
> graphics card that supported Linux well was challenging (in fact I
> needed to patch the kernel to support my graphics card ), hopefully
> things are better these days.
> 
> Not sure of the OS I'd be using yet, contenders are currently Ubuntu,
> or Manjaro... depends on how adventurous I want to be.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam
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