There is circulating a serious new problem with Linux on the new Ryzen 7 or 9 3000 series (or perhaps the X570 chipset). It is bad enough that it might be that no recent distro can be installed, including Mageia 7.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... inux&num=2
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/ryzen-3 ... you/144702
It is confirmed to affect Ubuntu 19.04, Manjaro Linux, and Fedora Workstation 31 (and apparently Debian 10). Some have posted (elsewhere, but with no details yet) that this is a known issue with the random number generator related to systemd. It seems the bug only gets more visibility on the new Ryzen processors. One person said systemd has indeed been patched, and the patch is in the new Debian version. It seems any systemd after 237 is the cause, and Mageia 7 is using 241, which will be a problem.
Since one of the many affected versions of systemd is in the boot media for Mageia 7, it will make installing impossible or very difficult on any Ryzen 3000 system. This is amplified by the fact that most Mageia users who get their hands on this chip probably are going to also have a new MB and chipset and will be performing fresh installs of the Mageia 7, the latest release. And updates won't help until the system is installed. So it requires the distro to create new installation images (which is a big deal for them) or that someone finds a workaround (perhaps some boot flag?).
I can't post a bug report, since I don't yet own a Ryzen 3000, so this is all second-hand information. But I wanted to let the Mageia community know of this serious problem, quickly. I hope it helps someone. I, was planning to get a Ryzen 3700 and run Mageia 7 on it...