Yes, I'm new here. I'm building a new PC from components and am planning to see if I can dump Windows and just use a Linux distro.

COMPUTER COMPONENTS
MOTHERBOARD: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac
CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 3900X
GRAPHICS CARD: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GAMING

QUESTION
I imagine I will install the Linux OS from a thumb drive.
Since the motherboard has no on-board graphics, is there any special way to make sure the first boot from the thumb drive will recognize the RTX 2070 Super to display the console?

In fact, will the BIOS recognize the RTX 2070 board even before I get to booting the thumb drive?

Thanks for your help.
Rob:-]

Can't speak to the BIOS functionality...not really a Linux issue. Someone may know, tho.

You can build out your hardware, then boot to a live version on the thumb drive to see what works (or doesn't) before you do the actual install.

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If you use a version of linux that doesn't have an old kernel, you (probably) will be fine with the recent nvidia card. The motherboard you are using is very recent and when you use the latest and greatest sometimes linux lags behind, but it should be ok too. Try it with a live linux usb as was recommended by scasey.

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It should be able to use a fallback graphics mode right from the BIOS startup; if it goes black while booting Linux, add "nomodeset" to the kernel command line (a web search will tell you how).

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Having a motherboard without on-board graphics is a normal thing. Most of the times it will not be a problem.

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Thanks folks for your quick response. I suspected that this would not be a problem but, while waiting for the last component to arrive ... the case, I thought I'd double check to see if I need to add anything to the thumb drive like drivers or whatever. I've worked on plenty of UNIX systems for cross compiling to build ROM code for embedded controllers, but I've never had to install or administer a Linux system. (And my UNIX experience is many years behind me now that I'm retired.)

So thanks a bunch for putting my mind at ease.