Comment by pjmlp
1 day ago
Since it is paid, how is he going with hardware accelerated video decoding on YouTube, Netflix or Amazon Prime?
Which I never got to work properly on the laptop/netbook I owned until 2024.
1 day ago
Since it is paid, how is he going with hardware accelerated video decoding on YouTube, Netflix or Amazon Prime?
Which I never got to work properly on the laptop/netbook I owned until 2024.
Current gen intel and amd gpus support vaapi out of the box on fedora in both chromium and firefox. DRM nonsense is orthogonal and unrelated to linux.
There have been leaps and bounds of progress in the last few years. Youtube hardware acceleration works perfectly in chrome/firefox now (assuming you have working video drivers).
As far as I know netflix still limits you to 720p under most browsers (although their support page shows that opera of all things supports 1080p)
I watch Freetube and Netflix on my Starlite tablet and it works well. Works on the laptop too, though I don't watch there.
libva is usually installed these days but you can install it manually. For Netflix you'll need to install widevine.
Who knows, it's 2026 now.
Yeah, and still it isn't the Year of Linux Desktop for 90% of the world, unless it is hosted on a VM.
Being generous with Steam hardware survey numbers for GNU/Linux.