The website is hard to read on mobile because it is wider than my screen. Bit unfortunate. Regarding VA-API: Since gstreamer-vaapi 0.7.0, Totem finally works w

The website is hard to read on mobile because it is wider than my screen. Bit unfortunate. Regarding VA-API: Since gstreamer-vaapi 0.7.0, Totem finally works with VA-API. Before only MPV worked. IMO if you used mplayer you better just switch to mpv. It still doesn't work perfectly in VLC, though AFAIK VA-API should be built in. In my experience filing bugs was enough to get improvements. Once it works well enough distributions should install it by default. IMO it pretty reasonable to achieve "va-api installed by default" for major distributions during 2016 provided enough people put their time in. Heard that gstreamer-vaapi will be merged into gstreamer itself, so that'll help a lot as well. Regarding laptop support: Canonical seems to do a lot in this area. Testing Ubuntu and adding (upstreaming) workarounds/quirks to e.g. the kernel. Some problematic items I wasn't aware of (good to have this list). E.g. font anti aliasing. Stuff like that is why freedesktop.org started, to have a way to agree on such things. At least for some of the items on this list I have the idea that I can help to improve. Some items seems impossible. Still, just a little bit of effort can help a lot. Often I spend less than 30min to get improvements (though mostly thanks to actual paid developers putting in their effort). Edit: The site should remove the swearing. You can be explicit in your disagreement without needing to swear.