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.

bubblethink 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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osamagirl69 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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)

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mixmastamyk 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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bigyabai a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Who knows, it's 2026 now.

	▲	pjmlp a day ago \| parent [-]
		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.