Why do you care? Those lights are inside case. If you don't get case with glass, you won't ever see it.
I don't like that X570 needs a chipset fan, but at least cooling's useful. I can't have as much charity toward LEDs. Although I do like 'em. The æsthetic is sick. Although not this one: https://smile.amazon.com/G-Skill-Trident-3600Mhz-PC4-28800-C...
Not at all true. It's around 0.1-0.2 watt per LED. A RAM stick is going to have maybe a dozen at most, so that's an extra 1-2 watts. Similar for a motherboard. Maybe a fully binged out build is burning 10-20 watts on RGB, give or take.
That's comparable to the power usage of just the VRMs or the X570 chipset (which is 10-15w), to say nothing of the CPU or GPU itself (both of which commonly blow past 100W under loads)
LEDs are very, very efficient. They do not take a "disproportionate ton of power."
10-20W is 10-40% of idle power consumption, perhaps, for a workstation. So it wastes a lot even in relative terms.
Then turn them off? The whole point of RGB lighting is it's controllable. That includes setting it to off.
(Also computer hardware vendors seem particularly fond of blue LEDs, which is the most annoying color to some people.)
And yes, I mean RAM, GPU, motherboard, fans, etc advertised as "RGB". If it's the same price and includes LED, then for all purposes it doesn't have LED.
Not a single vendor supports Linux. Luckily some things have been reverse engineered, but it's very far from "just turn it off". Even on windows it sucks if you're mixing brands. MSI Mobo, Asus GPU, Corsair RAM, gonna need 3 separate programs running at startup to control those LEDs.
I get that some object to non-open standards on principle, but RGB is not a serious impediment to availability or use. Looking, there are non-RGB versions of most current-gen hardware available from popular resellers, and there are plenty of OEM options that are RGB-free. What I don't have racked somewhere else is in solid 'silent' cases with as few moving parts as required, but I bought parts with minimal/no lighting anyway.
I certainly hope that everyone can find something amenable to their situation, but I also feel that objecting doesn't help when an hour's work or research beforehand can allieviate the cause.
It’s extremely hard to build a PC that would fit my personal aesthetics and even if I can turn those off the mere thought of having to configure that and the mere thought of those LEDs existing at all offends me on a deep level.
You have limitless choices when it comes to building a PC but the aesthetics of the things you can get are awful and tiring and just … ugly.
The RGB stuff sorta grew on me and it's kind of interesting on Linux to be able to see the CPU fan stop spinning completely (never seems to happen on W10 though...).