Greetings I recently upgraded my system to a new motherboarda and a new processor, (well I guess new everything) except my hard drives, which contain my operating system which is Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit.
The new motherboard is a GIGABYTE Z170N On their website it specifies that it will support Windows operating systems, but there was no mention of Linux or Ubuntu.
Just wondering if the migration of my system will actually work with this motherboard?
Latest Ubuntu 14.04 (14.04.4) uses kernel 4.2 which will probably run with skylake processors (intel 6th gen) but maybe need some configuration (probably nomodeset boot option and upgrade to newer kernel as discussed here No version of Ubuntu can be installed with any Skylake 6th generation Intel processor). The best way to be sure is to write an ubuntu usb live image and choose test ubuntu instead of install. So, I recommend that you try a clean ubuntu 16.04 install which has kernel 4.4 (you can also upgrade to kernel 4.5 or 4.6 series as they supposed to have more skylake fixes and improvements, but they may cause instability to your system).
Keep in mind that if you use intel graphics there are not any proprietary skylake drivers for linux yet and opensource drivers are at an early stage yet (maybe when 16.04.1 is released there will be better support). Some benchmarks for ubuntu 15.10 (ubuntu 16.04 may be a bit better) are here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-skylake-windows&num=2. So, you should probably consider installing newest kernel (4.6 series) and adding this ppa https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers?field.series_filter=xenial (there's a risk to make your system unstable).
