AMD has been open source since late 2017?

Ah they sold boards with the bugged versions of the i225? Mine had the rev3 chip which is supposed to have fixed the issues with the older revisions.

I have a b650e-i

That’s not good, I actively try to avoid realtek cards since they are unreliable in linux. I have an asus board with an Intel nic but I haven’t had these issues.

Yes it’s normal, I sometimes use that to disinfect my ears after diving and it sizzles a bit.

The newer ones usually have some smart stuff built in

No you didnt, I was just trying to say that you’re not safe either way.

LTS is no guarantee that there wont be bugs, 6.1 recently had a bug with NFS where it corrupted files.

Framework isn’t available where I am yet unfortunately.

Yes and it sucks, I would love one

Aren’t any AMD based ones? Seems to be very few laptops with AMD gfx overall.

Because they are just rebranding oem devices

Not hate in my case, but I don’t like ms and it’s because of the shit they have done in 90s and 2000s. Their current support of linux is not something I trust.

Yeah I love dark humor as well but timing is everything.