How to choose the right hardware for Ubuntu?

tushev2014-01-19 14:55:55

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tushev, 2014-01-19 14:55:55

I'm choosing hardware for my new working desktop. Mainly programming web applications, GIS systems, sites... Ubuntu will be the main OS. Virtual Windows (XP, 7, 8, 32, 64 bits) through OpenBox and VmWare will often be launched there. I will not play cool toys, but still 3D graphics should be supported. Two monitors.
The question is, how to choose the right motherboard and other hardware for full-fledged work under Linux without dancing with a tambourine and tedious googling for solutions to problems with finding drivers? There is a sad experience when under linux, hardware either works only in basic mode, or is very buggy. I want to install the OS and immediately start normal work.
Manufacturers usually don't advertise Linux support unless the motherboard is a server board. Also, I don't know if I need to buy a separate vidyakha, or Linux will be able to take full advantage of what is already built into the motherboard and in the process.
Now I'm thinking about the Asus H87M-Plus motherboard / chipset, Core i5-4670K processor, RAM 16 GB.
If I worked under Windows, I probably wouldn’t take a vidyaha, but there are doubts in Linux.
Please advise how to navigate.

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Nikolai Turnaviotov, 2014-01-19
@foxmuldercp

The first and most correct decision on hardware compatibility is to read the HCL - Hardware compatible list.
In general, there are problems only with multi-monitor and multi-video card configurations, at the level of expanding the desktop in some de / dm to multiple monitors and switching graphics from the built-in chip to an external discrete one on some laptops.
still waking up / falling asleep with video cards and wifi. Well, sometimes a rake with sound chips. Like not turning off the speakers when you connect headphones.

dmko, 2014-01-19
@dmko

della has a ruler with ubuntu immediately installed

Dmitry, 2014-01-19
@dmib

The processor is not very good for virtualization, there is no support for VT-d. You can take the same one, but without the letter K. Intel quite normally supports its vidyuhi, even deb is. https://01.org/linuxgraphics/.
For the most part, USB peripherals interfere with falling asleep and, in principle, are easily solved.

oleksandr_veles, 2014-01-19
@oleksandr_veles

IMHO, there are enough motherboards on the B85 chipset, even though ASUS B85M-G.
Processor without K, Core i5-4570 is optimal. There is 3D on the built-in, even nexuiz runs.
HD Graphics 4600 will be at the level of initial discrete cards geforce 630-640.
If it is not enough, then something like Xeon E3-1230 v3 + geforce 650 ti will be optimal.
A 100-120GB SSD is required, 20-40GB is enough for the system, the rest is for tasks.
+ HDD 2TB.
Otherwise, I don’t remember any problems with support in linux on desktop systems for 5-8 years.

Lilion, 2014-01-20
@Lilion

> Or will it really only affect the speed of loading the OS?
Yes. And they are still less reliable.
It is better to take a processor without the K index, and a motherboard with an Intel network card, and not as you indicated with a realtek, which have recently had incomprehensible compatibility problems and bugs.
How about the graph kernel built into the stones from intel? Pretty good graphics.

asolokha, 2014-01-22
@asolokha

XenServer or VMWare hypervisors on bare metal and forwarding the video card, USB controllers and SSD disk to the guest system - it seems to me that it would be a better option and correctly indicated above - it's better to take the Xeon E3-1230 v3. In terms of hardware, everything is simple for Linux with "virtualization" - motherboard and CPU with VT-d, video - nVidia or Intel