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>I bought a System76 machine running their own PopOS distro and everything Just Works as I'd expect Including touchpad gestures and browser hardware video acce
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>I bought a System76 machine running their own PopOS distro and everything Just Works as I'd expect
Including touchpad gestures and browser hardware video acceleration out of the box?
- kibwen 3y agoIt has touchpad gestures, and I even used a GUI program (I think it's called Touche, trivially installed via the app store) to customize the gestures further (it's quite powerful, it lets you assign arbitrary keys or shell scripts to gestures and scope them by context, e.g. I assigned four-finger swipe left/right to Alt+Left/Right while inside Firefox to perform back/forward navigation (this was before Firefox started shipping with gestures natively)). As for browser hardware video acceleration, I sure hope so (the model I got has a beefy GPU) but I'm not sure how to check, and in any case I reflexively watch all videos in 480p after years of watching my old Windows laptop overheat while trying to decode video so I'm the wrong person to ask. :P
- amlib 3y agoFirefox has hardware video decoding enabled by default on linux for years now, only google chrome doesn't want to bother doing the work to enable it. That said, in some cases hardware video decoding may be unavailable due to IP issues that forbid the necessary code to be distributed freely.