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  • Ah, faulty hardware.

    I got more open to prebuilt PCs when I could not upgrade any single component of my home PC, the motherboard still had AGP slot. It is also an option when you are buying a PC-in-a-monitor build, upgrading anything there is a fool’s errand. But for regular PCs it was considerably cheaper ten years ago to buy every component separately, and then they just click in place like LEGOs. The chances of burning your custom-built PC are like, you need serious crab hands to mount it that poorly.



  • Check for WiFi and Bluetooth drivers compatibility first. Every x86_64 motherboard should work with Linux well, as in, it will boot and all USB/PCI Express/SATA ports will work. What you should care are peripherals soldered onto the motherboard, like WiFi, Bluetooth, extra Ethernet ports, ten years ago I would say soundcards but nowadays all integrated soundcards are supported, some motherboards have strange ports like Firewire which might not be supported, integrated videocards are now soldered directly onto CPU and not on motherboards like before so HDMI ports should all work on any motherboard.

    And yes, as the other commenter said, check that firmware update does not require some Windows program, and could be done only with USB drive and selecting some option in the BIOS/UEFI menu.