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Running Linux on my main productivity PC since 2003 Mainly laptops, but also a couple of desktops. It's not always been easy, especially before 2015-2016. I
by notorandit 2y ago
Running Linux on my main productivity PC since 2003
Mainly laptops, but also a couple of desktops.
It's not always been easy, especially before 2015-2016.
I tried Slackware, Gentoo, SuSE, Ubuntu and, finally, Arch Linux.
It is still not easy, but at least quite well documented.
To me everything works pretty well. Everything but a single thing.
Hw-accelerated WebRTC.
Almost all browsers are chromium-based. And Google supports hw-accelerated WebRTC only on Android and ChromeOS. I can imagine the latter (which is a browser centric OS), but why Android?
Firefox hw-accelerated seems not to work too.
My Linux box gets on its knees when doing Zoom/Teams/Meet/Slack with video on.
I think this is either intentional or simply stupid.
- cess11 2y agoI do a couple of hours in video conferencing a day on Linux and don't consider it particularly resource intensive. It's another service than those you mention plus one way video on Teams because they don't allow video in Firefox because they hate us all, but still, I think it's a WebRTC thing. People on Windows seems to have more issues with performance than me.