Review on GIGABYTE B550 AORUS PRO: Next-Gen Gaming Motherboard with PCIe4, Dual M.2, and RGB Fusion 2.0 by Chris Weber

This motherboard is a pleasure to work with. Installation was easy but the bios that was on the board was a bit buggy. He came from F2. I was able to get it on F12b and everything works great. The only issue that is really annoying is RealTek 2.5Gb LAN that works with some Linux distributions. It works out of the box with Arch, but the latest versions of Ubuntu and Fedora require a driver to be installed after installation. So make sure you download the driver and copy it to a USB stick before installing it. UPDATE: This board is a nightmare if you're using Linux. The 2.5GB network is fixed in most Linux distributions. The new problem is that you can't use the BIOS via F12 if you want power management to work. If you try to use Suspend with F13 and a newer BIOS, your displays will turn off and everything will freeze while the fans and LEDs will continue to work. The only way to bring the system back is to turn the switch on the power supply off and on again. Not being able to use a newer BIOS is bad as it includes AMD's USB system fixes to improve stability. The other thing that really sucks is that every BIOS update completely wipes the Linux boot disk from UEFI. Before anyone says it's ok, ASRock can update BIOS without wiping the boot drive. I would not recommend this or any other Gigabyte board to anyone. I'm told that Gigabyte doesn't even verify that the boards work with Linux, except for a few that they release for Linux. Gigabyte won't even try to fix an issue with their BIOS and Linux if the board works fine on Windows.