Not to mention the split brain of US/TW/CN support sides for computer hardware and actually finding the correct firmware/bios images to begin with, which would

Not to mention the split brain of US/TW/CN support sides for computer hardware and actually finding the correct firmware/bios images to begin with, which would make it all that much more easy for third parties to get fake sites up/out. Asus seems to have had several design issues, qc flaws and other support issues lately. MSI have had data breaches, and even then bully reviewers to the point you really can't trust a lot of their product reviews or them. Gigabyte treats their Linux using customers like hot garbage, and then there's the exploding PSU coverup/downplay. I'm not sure how many options that's leaving on the table at this point. I know there's ASRock for MBs and haven't seen anything bad about them lately.