Consumer Reports asks Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10.

[cpufrost]

Paper straws are the devil like WG himself. :-P
For those of you old enough to remember pixy stix, fill said straws with black powder and light fuse while they are drinking with their lower vent hole...
Anyhow...

BTW, I still do flatten chassis for steel value. Our recycler gives twenty cents for a pound for depleted SLA batts too. Plasma cutter makes short work of chassis, frames, and covers.
Spot price for Gold is nuts, def not throwing chips out. Was going to make a wall of something out of hundreds of pentium pro chips I collected over years but screw that! Although I'd still make a lucite toilet seat with PPRo 200s in the lid and Z80s on each side of the seat...

 

[Lakados]

I've had more problems with Broadcom than Realtek. Don't remember ever having problems with Realtek, but again I'm just an end user.

Yes, both have some problems, but Realtek's product support in Windows is bad enough; most users aren't even using the Realtek drivers there, as they fall back to a Microsoft generic one because it works better. If I have a machine that will be doing Linux, anything Realtek is an instant deal breaker and something I actively avoid when building because the support is so spotty it's just not worth the headache.

 

[Mazzspeed]

Yes, both have some problems, but Realtek's product support in Windows is bad enough; most users aren't even using the Realtek drivers there, as they fall back to a Microsoft generic one because it works better. If I have a machine that will be doing Linux, anything Realtek is an instant deal breaker and something I actively avoid when building because the support is so spotty it's just not worth the headache.

And I do the same, no Realtek devices here. I actually haven't encountered a driver issue under Linux in years. Realtek support under Linux basically involves the use of reverse engineered Windows drivers, when the Windows drivers are bad, the Linux drivers are undoubtably going to be worse.

 

[DukenukemX]

Yes, both have some problems, but Realtek's product support in Windows is bad enough; most users aren't even using the Realtek drivers there, as they fall back to a Microsoft generic one because it works better. If I have a machine that will be doing Linux, anything Realtek is an instant deal breaker and something I actively avoid when building because the support is so spotty it's just not worth the headache.

My experience with Realtek on Linux has been problem free. Again, just sound, Ethernet, and WiFi. Windows Realtek support used to be really good. Every time I went to Realtek's website there was always an updated driver for something. Suddenly, that went away. You could spend hours downloading a driver from their website because the speed was that slow. The audio control panel just vanished and required you to get it off the Microsoft store, which never worked. I had to download the driver from Asus or some other manufacturer as their driver had the control panel for sound. Maybe you're dealing with server stuff like PXE boot?