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Comment by danarmak | Hacker News Reader

The actual article title (atm) is "AMD Ryzen 7 3700X + Ryzen 9 3900X Offer Incredible Linux Performance But With A Big Caveat". This link omits the "caveat" part. Please fix that.

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Caveat is "does not boot any recent systemd distro". Issue seems to be somewhere in systemd. Ubuntu 18.04 boots and runs fine, so as long as you like LTS, you're good.

I don't see this as a big caveat, because there is near zero chance this issue won't be speedily fixed now the CPU is released. It's probably some locking/threading issue which previous architectures never hit.

The original article is titled "...With A Big Caveat". That is the author's (Michael Larabel's) decision. It's fine to disagree and to discuss that in the comments here. But linking to the article using a title that means something quite different is misleading editorializing.

Try to put the full title into https://news.ycombinator.com/submit

It's 10 characters too long. But when shortening it, the meaning should not be significantly changed.

E.g., you could replace "AMD Ryzen 7 3700X + Ryzen 9 3900X" with "AMD Ryzen 3700X + 3900X". 10 characters shorter and no confusion or change in meaning. I'm sure there are other ways to rewrite this.

The caveat is temporary, really not that important. Works fine with previous LTS versions of the kernel and future versions not pulled into there current Ubuntu version. Some kind of bug in the current kernel version that the current Ubuntu districts runs on.

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