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There do exist people that want to use YouTube and Hulu on Linux, and that's hard to do without Flash.

• abrahamsen 14y ago
  YouTube on Linux without flash works fine these days.
  • ta12121 14y ago
    It certainly didn't a few weeks ago when I tried it.
  • DeepDuh 14y ago
    Have they come around offering everything in html5 now? I tried it about a year ago and it only had a small percentage of the content I watch.
    • greyboy 14y ago
      My totally unscientific and anecdotal input is that, for what I end up watching (5-10 videos/week), it's in the 50-75% range (for HTML5 videos being available). Of course, that doesn't mean much and I always have a Windows virtual machine running for just these scenarios.
      • JoshTriplett 14y ago
        For videos unavailable via HTML5, try youtube-dl: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/ https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/
        • bsphil 14y ago
          No youtube video is worth that amount of time and energy. EDIT: That's probably why I can't convince myself to put Linux on my desktop as the primary OS. I just don't want to take the time to compile github scripts or scour the Internet for drivers/workarounds/fixes to make all of the basic computing functions I take for granted on Win7 work.
          • greyboy 14y ago
            The link JoshTriplett gave is a simple script, nothing that takes any time to make it usable after you download it (assuming Python is installed). But, different strokes for different folks: and choice is usually never a bad thing. Of course, I learned long ago not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Personally, I have a few Windows virtual machines and an old, cheap Windows XP laptop around for those rare occasions as well as a Windows 7 dual boot install for .Net development. However (again, anecdotally), I've not had a problem with using Linux day-to-day. Nothing has been difficult and I appreciate the power the CLI affords me.
            • bsphil 14y ago
              I run a Linux VM in Windows on my desktop actually, but it's my gaming machine too. Last time I gave it a shot as a full install, I couldn't for the life of me get a brand new USB wifi adapter to work in Ubuntu. All the searching on the topic seemed to indicate that 64-bit users are screwed (which was me), and 32-bit users needed to use a driver emulator and dig through generic broadcom drivers to test. I gave up.
              • Ralith 14y ago
                It's often a good idea to research how well hardware will work for your intended use before you pay money for it.
                • bsphil 14y ago
                  I did. It serves me very well on my Windows machine.
          • icebraining 14y ago
            apt-get install youtube-dl youtube-dl URL Not that you need to do this - Flash still works fine on Linux.
            • omaranto 14y ago
• fosap 14y ago
  I'm a Linux user, have no flash installed and use Youtube. It's not as good as i could be, but it works. Most content is displayed with HTML5, for the other stuff i use mplayer witch is a bit hacky, but works for me.
  • ta12121 14y ago
    I don't use Linux because I enjoy annoying kluges.