I can’t speak for anyone but myself but I recently built a new PC for myself with an AMD Ryzen 7950X. When I was doing research I looked at loads of benchmarks and prices of both AMD and Intel chips and ultimately chose AMD because it offered the best value. Especially when you factor in the power costs over time (eco mode is very impressive and yes, I do run with eco mode enabled).
I’d imagine most folks who build their own PCs go through the same sort of obsessive process, haha.
There’s no major issues with either AMD or Intel CPUs on Linux these days so that’s not really a factor. I did go the extra mile though to double check that the 2.5GB Ethernet and Wifi chips in the motherboard I chose had excellent Linux support. I also made sure that updating the motherboard BIOS didn’t require Windows-only software (turned down one motherboard because of reports of Linux users having bad experiences there).
I can’t speak for anyone but myself but I recently built a new PC for myself with an AMD Ryzen 7950X. When I was doing research I looked at loads of benchmarks and prices of both AMD and Intel chips and ultimately chose AMD because it offered the best value. Especially when you factor in the power costs over time (eco mode is very impressive and yes, I do run with eco mode enabled).
I’d imagine most folks who build their own PCs go through the same sort of obsessive process, haha.
There’s no major issues with either AMD or Intel CPUs on Linux these days so that’s not really a factor. I did go the extra mile though to double check that the 2.5GB Ethernet and Wifi chips in the motherboard I chose had excellent Linux support. I also made sure that updating the motherboard BIOS didn’t require Windows-only software (turned down one motherboard because of reports of Linux users having bad experiences there).