Asus maximus vi impact and linux

[venic]

I plan on running arch linux on asus maximus based intel pc, and recently discovered some misgivings about the same in an online review. Please remove/corroborate my doubts. Thank you

 

[Jason Light]

Should be completely fine, I have run Linux on a huge array of hardware from a pentium from 2002 to a dual core laptop from 2008 to an 8 core AMD FX CPU in 2012 to a 8 Core AMD server, to my friends 4 core i7 4770k, all on different motherboards with different RAM and generally different configurations. The only real incompatibility I've found is AMD GPUs tend to suck if you need 3D acceleration however I imagine SteamOS will help too resolve this as the drivers for it will run on normal Linux distros too, and I don't imagine either GPU manufacturer wants to be left out of that.

Keep in mind that Arch Linux is for advanced Linux users, or new users who don't mind the extra work of installing and configuring it. It is likely that you will need to do a lot of extra work and things will go wrong. If this isn't what you want you should try a more consumer friendly distro such as ElementaryOS, Ubuntu or Linux Mint. On the other hand if you are a power user who loves configuring everything and doesnt mind being dropped to a terminal when things go wrong Arch Linux is made for you, and you will be able to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your machine. If you are this type of user you should also consider Gentoo, as it is even more customisable than Arch although the lengthy install times put a lot of people off.