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It would be awesome if this means Google Stadia is coming to FF on Linux. I trialed the service and was very impressed with it, but ultimately decided against a
by vesinisa 6y ago
It would be awesome if this means Google Stadia is coming to FF on Linux. I trialed the service and was very impressed with it, but ultimately decided against a subscription since Chrome for Linux does not support Stadia due to lack of HW acceleration (it runs but is unusably slow).
- bitwize 6y agoWait, somebody likes Stadia?
- vesinisa 6y agoI know it was gutted at launch but I decided to try it anyways with open eyes since there was a 2-month free trial with some free games. I have fiber at home so latency and bandwidth is not at all an issue - on Chrome on Windows laptop the gaming experience was flawless and technically very impressive. The value proposition of the service is in fact excellent for me. I game only sporadically, so investing in a highend gaming PC makes no sense - the hardware outdates too fast, and I anyway prefer to run Linux on my PC. I bought a PS4 but I prefer to play FPS games on a keyboard and mouse, and frankly most times I actually want to play the PS4 after months offline, I need to start with ~30 min worth of system updates before any game is even allowed to start (thanks DRM..) With Stadia I pay one time fee for each game I want to play. Google offers for that fixed price always the latest, highest-end hardware and OS to play on. Contrast this to having to keep updating my PC hardware and maintaining a Windows installation just for gaming. If only it was working on Linux as well as Windows I would have certainly continued using it.
- bryan_w 6y agoI use stadia on Linux just fine. You may want to check your chrome settings
- vesinisa 6y agoWhich distro are you on? Chromium has unstable VA-API support but most distros don't ship it.
- fulafel 6y agoI wonder what Chrome does on ChromeOS, does it have different media APIs?