They don't hate you, they just don't care... (Score 1)

I think they don't hate Linux, they just don't care... I /may/ be that the took the code from another motherboard, made some quick & dirty changes to the dsdt table and submited it to the automated WHQL verificator until it succeed. And since this board only support XP or Vista (check the manual), old, out-of-date parts of code are floating in the BIOS. Nobody cares, nobody will react. Engineering something correct is too expensive nowadays, so engineers are only told to make something that works.