It’s my first time building a computer. I also haven’t really done much PC gaming in the past 15 years, except on my Steam Deck. Actually, it is the Steam Deck that has convinced me to invest in a desktop PC with some more power. I like the Linux experience on Steam Deck and would like to stick with that if possible. I haven’t used Windows in 15 years either, as I tend to use Mac OS and a bit of Linux for personal and work. Windows seems to just get worse and worse and I’d like to avoid it if possible.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zr2ZVW

In any case, I went with an AMD CPU because I’ve heard about Intel’s recent corrosion issues. And, chose an NVidia GPU since I’d like to take advantage of ray tracing. I’ve heard the driver support can be a bit mixed on Linux, but I’m open to trying to make it work unless folks think it really is terrible. Any feedback is helpful.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The motherboard you have chosen has 2.5Gb/s ethernet, and Wifi 6E.

    But you are also purchasing a PCI ethernet card capped out at 1Gb/s, and a wifi card which only supports up to ax (wifi6).

    Unless you have a specific use case you haven’t mentioned, I am not sure why you would need these at all?

    edit

    AMD is apparently better supported on linux, however I have been using a 4060(ti?) without issue