This lack of driver support for hardware that’s still functional and available in reasonable quantities is annoying. I was very close to buying a retired POWER

This lack of driver support for hardware that’s still functional and available in reasonable quantities is annoying. I was very close to buying a retired POWER7+ server with an ungodly amount of memory, but decided being unable to run a modern Linux kernel would be more work than I wanted to have. Modern kernels need POWER8 and above. OTOH, if these chips were fully supported, they wouldn’t hit the second hand market at the prices they do.