>even something like h.264 decoding puts a huge strain on my haswell laptop. I never had that problem even before haswell. They have hardware decoding built in

>even something like h.264 decoding puts a huge strain on my haswell laptop. I never had that problem even before haswell. They have hardware decoding built in, thats probably caused by another issue. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration I agree about not enforcing viewpoints on others. If you don't like it, don't buy it.