Hi, I´m about to buy a new motherboard and I need it to have SPDIF out.

So far I have found just two motherboards which fullfil my requirements and those motherboards have either:
  • Realtek ALC889A codec
  • VIA VT1708S codec


I plan to use SPDIF passthrough.
Do you know which of those should work better in Ubuntu?

(I have been doing some research about it but all the posts I found were very old).

Thank you!