Are there hardware components whose specs say they’re compatible with Linux?

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Franco Scarpa

Posted on July 4, 2019

Are there hardware components whose specs say they’re compatible with Linux?

I want to build my personal Linux computer from scratch. I love custom configurations and admire people who spend time to select each component carefully: CPU, SSD, case, RAM, GPU. I like Linux because I used Ubuntu at University to write C source code and Ubuntu provides the GCC compiler out of the box. It was so easy to write code, and this led me to think the Linux OSs family is designed for developers first of all. What slows down me is the fact that computer hardware doesn’t provide a full Linux compatibility. So far I was not able to find a component whose specs precisely said: “It’s compatible with Linux”. They only said: “Compatibility with Linux is not guaranteed”. I don’t like it. Of course, the web is full of people who write reviews about their hardware components’ compatibility with Linux, and I often read something like: “I had no problems, Linux seems to be fully supported”. “Seems”. Unfortunately, I am a perfectionist and “seems” is a verb I don’t like, because we can’t be sure this is true and I care about optimal performance. So I’m here to ask you: have you ever found a component whose specs say it’s compatible with Linux? If so, can you write the link of these specs on comments? In general, what do you think about this issue?

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francoscarpa
Franco Scarpa

Posted on July 4, 2019

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