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  • Only potential issues I can forsee are audio driver and networking driver, but I highly doubt either of those will be an issue with any modern motherboard.

    I would just buy whatever and install Linux on it. As for which one to buy, just get one from a reputable brand (Gigabyte, ASUS, ASRock, MSI, and whatever else I’m missing).

    The CPU and the BIOS/UEFI/other primary bootloader are all that really matter from a software freedom perspective (hardware freedom is a different beast altogether that still has no truly viable solution for 100% freedom from head to toe yet), and unless you go with an old mobo supported by libreboot or canoeboot, then you’re going to have to deal with having Intel ME or AMD PSP, which are segmented processors inside of the CPU that has full memory access and runs proprietary code along with having a proprietary BIOS.