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I just stick with Intel, Mellanox or Aquantia for wired networking and Intel or Qualcomm for wireless - those are always safe bets. Realtek is extremely hit and miss, I'd drop a cheap Intel NIC in the machine rather than relying on the onboard realtek.
That's generally my mindset but the motherboard price jumps up quite a bit for one that has only Intel. Every other board has a Realtek chip on either the Ethernet or WiFi.
I just chuck an add in NIC in and ignore the onboard LAN hardware. Wireless is usually an m.2 board and easily replaced as well. Total cost there is like $30 for both if you pick both up on fleaBay.
It's a mini iTX board so I won't have room for an extra network card. Yes I could swap WiFi chips as it's a daughter board but then I come back to the issue of what works with Linux
Realtek LAN is usually not too bad.
For WiFi, you want mediatek or Intel though.
Okay. I'll recheck the motherboards and prioritize based off that. Thank you
We've had seemingly endless support issues with mediatek WiFi over the last 2-3y in the asus-linux community. Most people have either pulled their mediatek cards and replaced them with intel or have just gotten used to rebooting every time they have a mediatek driver issue.