Feb 3, 2016 - So I had decided not to buy the BRIX GB-BACE-3000 because I. A linux distro that is lighter than Lubuntu but still supports the drivers here? May 24, 2016 - I don't know if it's a Linux driver problem (since it's initially supported out of. Why won't Gigabyte get their Brix J1900 box to work with Linux? Legenda o korkite chitatj.

I bought a Skylake NUC and I will buy more NUCs in the future but using them with Linux isn't all rosy: - Getting the NUC to wake up after sleep is a hit or miss. Sometimes I can still SSH into it, but I never manage to get the display back on. - One in every 200 boots the fan just doesn't start. Since the fan isn't very loud, some people might not notice this, which might or might not be a problem. - One in every 1000 boots the fan seems to be the only thing that starts. - Sometimes Wifi doesn't come up or goes down.

Getting it back up is impossible. - Getting into BIOS is annoyingly difficult. I had some more problems but I think they were my monitors fault (looking at you, Dell).

I've been using Linux since forever now and I never had so many problems with any machine. I have NUC6i3SYH and NUC6i7KYK, neither exhibit any of the characteristics you've described. I've used Arch and Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on both as well as Windows 10 LTSB and Anniversary editions on the Skull Canyon.

The latter is to run some graphics editing software (which is why I wanted dual M.2 slots so I could dedicate physical drives to each OS). If it were really that bad I definitely wouldn't be able to use it as my daily driver. My Dell 5510 on the other hand is a PoS that I've had replaced 4 times now.

I won't buy another Dell product because of that and their horrible support. I have a NUC6i5SYK (Skylake) running Ubuntu 16.04 server, and I too had some serious problems initially. Installing to the SSD worked without issues, but then I got machine check panics during most boots. After a lot of troubleshooting I was finally able to make the system stable by adding these parameters to the kernel command line: intel_idle.max_cstate=1 i915.enable_rc6=0 After that it has been running without a glitch. I hope it will be as stable as the Mac Mini it replaced. That too had some initial problems however: the first one I bought in 2008 was DOA. Apple replaced it, and the replacement lasted four months before a thunderstorm zapped it.

My insurance company replaced that one, and that Mac Mini then ran like a clockwork 24/7 for eight years. Since there are a number of iterations of NUC I suppose you could have one that doesn't. However most of the Intel wireless chipsets are some of best supported.

I own two Intel NUC and two Gigabyte Brix machines - all of them were specifically selected to run Linux and all of them work flawlessly out of the box under any major distro. One of my favorite desktop machines is the Intel Skull Canyon (NUC6i7KYK). It has an i7-6770HQ, supports 32GB of RAM (all of the newer, i.e. Skylake and greater do) and the real difference I wanted was the fact that it has two M.2 slots AND a true Thunderbolt 3 port (for support of the Razer Core external GPU enclosure). Highly recommended if you want a performant machine in a small form factor with multi-monitor support and flexibility given it's size. I only hope that Gigabyte continues to make the Brix line, especially when Ryzen drops from AMD.