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Given that Linux desktop cannot properly utilize even the limited amounts of very common HW accelerators build into AMD and Intel chips (video decoders) and the
by quantummkv 6y ago
Given that Linux desktop cannot properly utilize even the limited amounts of very common HW accelerators build into AMD and Intel chips (video decoders) and the existing GPU's (all of them suck in different ways), running Linux on M1 would be a waste of everything without giving Linux any noticeable improvement over existing x86 machines.
- sudosysgen 6y agoAccelerated video decode worked fine on my AMD card, actually. Some codecs weren't supported, but it was pretty much functional. On Nvidia, I literally just had to install one package and I never had to think about video decode acceleration again.
- quantummkv 6y agoIt still doesn't work in browsers correctly, which is the most common way to consume video on Linux desktops