Used to toy around with Linux back in high school because I had a shit hand-me-down computer and the reset disc was long lost to the sands of time so it was either having to run a horribly bloated Windows Vista system bogged down with adware from 2006 OR have a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 and actually be able to do school stuff properly. Once I got a better computer that came with Windows 7 and had decent specs, I ended up just abandoning the platform altogether.
I've been keeping somewhat of an eye on developments in Linux, but a cursory glance shows no real progress that would make me want to make the switch from Windows 10 back to the Linux camp. Some people are still chimping about systemd as if it were the devil itself, the FSF is still terminally exceptional, GNOME's now chimping about transphobia and racism instead of fixing their shit GUI that's somehow managed to exist for the last decade, and it looks like even the once-beloved distros like Mint and Ubuntu have been getting lazy with their LTS releases if the bugs I've read about in the reviews are anything to go off of.
Despite all of that, I still wanna try something on actual hardware instead of virtualbox. ASUS decided to stop shipping BIOS updates for my particular motherboard, so I figured it would probably be a good time to update my rig in the coming months when I can actually scrounge up the money for new parts. I might dump my old stuff into a new case and then install Linux so I can have a little testing box that I can mess around with. Of course, that would only be possible if Ryzen support in Linux has actually matured enough for that to be viable.
Anyone know if Linux (and by extension BSD) support for Ryzen has matured to the point where I won't have to run a rolling release distro?
