Folks, I should have been more clear.
I already have a new fancy motherboard, etc. I have seen all the benchmarks. I am only concerned with how a specific Ryzen processor works with Fedora or other Linux distros. As I said, I can get by with the $ 75 Ryzen 3.
I assume that the Linux kernel and Fedora will work even better in the future with Ryzen. But is there any issue with the very newest Ryzens on Linux ?
One perk to spending the extra money on a Ryzen 7, is just to not have to replace the cpu for a year or two. And I guess that one gets a warm-fuzzy feeling watching their GHz tachometer read 4.7 GHz.
David Locklear