I run Linux Mint Mate on a 10 year old laptop. Everything works fine, but watching YouTube makes my wireless USB dongle mouse stutter a LOT. Basically if CPU usage goes up, mouse goes to hell.

Are you telling me that for some reason it's not using any hardware acceleration available while watching YouTube? How do I fix it?

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olyjohn 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's probably the 2.4GHz WiFi transmitter interfering with the 2.4GHz mouse transmitter. You probably notice it during YouTube because it's constantly downloading. Try a wired mouse.

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throwawaylaptop 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting theory. The wired mouse is trouble free, but I figured that's because of a better sampling rate and less overhead over all. Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse or some other frequency, or the laptop on fired Ethernet to see if the theory pans out.

	▲	Sohcahtoa82 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Maybe I'll try a bluetooth mouse Bluetooth is also 2.4 Ghz.

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lostmsu 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Or just switch to 5GHz or 6GHz range.

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dismalaf 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Easiest way is to use Chrome or a Chrome based browser since they bundle codecs with the browser. If you're using Firefox, need to make sure you have the codecs. I know nothing about Mint specifically though to know if they'd automatically install codecs or not.

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lights0123 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

You specifically don't want to use the bundled codecs since those would be CPU decode only.

	▲	dismalaf 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Straight up false. I have both Chrome and Vivaldi installed on Linux, both have hardware video decoding on OOTB... You check it by putting chrome://gpu in the address bar.
	▲	throwawaylaptop 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Interesting. I'll look into that more.

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throwawaylaptop 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Im using Brave and it seems the enable hardware acceleration box is checked.