i got all my games to work on linux,cyberpunk,stellar blade,high on life 2 everything. but i get framedrops on brave in youtube. everything has a fix right? right? apparently not,i read about 20 forum pages,delved into arch wiki,asked many ais what to do and couldn’t get my gpu to work on the browser to solve framedrops.

i had same problem on windows,what did i do there? i made brave work by gpu in nvidia control panel and problem solved.

so yeah ,i did really like linux,yes gaming works great on it. but small issuses like this is what breaks the immersion. and i want a computer that works good with enough effort,not one that has eternal problems. im sure linux will solve these problems someday. bye

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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    20 minutes ago

    I think you should really try another distribution.

    I had had long unsolvable problems with my daily driver and my HTPC.

    I had a problem while updating from Fedora Workstation 43 to 44, so I went with Fedora Siverblue. That solved a problem I had had for years where my Surface Go would be slow for no reason when hooked to a big screen.

    I had a problem on PopOS where my HTPC wasn’t able to adjust the framerate of my TV. Switching to LibreELEC solved every issue.

    All of this just to say, that sometimes you can solve an issue by switching distribution even if it wasn’t your main goal.

  • Fierro@piefed.socialEnglish
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    26 minutes ago

    I’m sorry you had those issues, I know the pain, browsers have been a compromise for me on nvidia hardware and it seemed like I was the only one with a problem when searching for a solution.

    If you ever decide to try again, cachyos is the only OS ive tried where browsers don’t lag or drop frames (mostly, still something ocassional but mostly unnoticeable) so you might want to try that in your next attempt? Whenever that happens.

    I’m sad to see so many comments lashing at you for expressing your opinion, but I’m glad to see at least a couple more reasonable ones. Hopefully next time you try there are more people ready to welcome you with open arms.

    What drove me to linux more than anything was my profound hate for windows (which preceded me ever trying linux by a handful of years), I just couldn’t fathom how so much money and r&d could culminate in such garbage (my opinion), there’s no good reason for most problems to exist, at least when something happens in linux I know it’s mostly a coordination problem between a dozen of unpaid developers that do it for the love of the game and have no relation or communication with eachother.

    I’m glad to see people open to trying alternatives to it, mostly because I don’t think anyone deserves suffering through windows.

  • oblivion96@discuss.tchncs.de
    19·
    2 hours ago

    Sad to see you go. Every Linux user is one less person relying on our corporate overlords.

    If you would like to give feedback to Brave, you can do so at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues, where you should include your OS, hardware, and installed drivers.

    Going with Arch as a first Linux is certainly a choice, and I’d guess a random library is missing. If you are still interested in Linux and it’s also happening in other browsers, I would recommend trying other distros with more “mainstream” appeal (e.g., installed desktop environments and drivers), such as Fedora, Mint, or CachyOS for rolling releases.

    I’m also quite new to all this stuff, so if I’m wrong on something, please tell me.

    • steam@programming.devOP
      35·
      2 hours ago

      i didnt use arch tho i used ubuntu. yes i used the archwiki,bec i attempted to translate its instructions to smth that would work in ubuntu by asking ai how to do it. since that was last resort as i didnt find working sources for ubuntu

      • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Do you have some obscure hardware? I have multiple desktops running Ubuntu or similar, and have not had any issues with browser video playback. At home an AMD GPU, at work an NVIDIA one. Admittedly, I use firefox.

        • steam@programming.devOP
          21·
          2 hours ago

          i have msi gf 63 thin10sc laptop with gtx1650,i5-10500h,16gb ram and an ssd.

          so i think it should be strong enough for youtube and isnt that obscure.

          the framedrops only happened if the video was 60fps but they were noticable. it did happen on firefox too

      • oblivion96@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 hours ago

        What hardware do you run, and do you still need help?

        Arch is very different from Debian based Linux, where even the same packages can have different names, so using the Arch Wiki for non Arch based Linux distros is not recommended.

        I don’t know which drivers are preinstalled on Ubuntu, and some people also seem to have problems with frame drops (e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1520102/why-do-i-get-so-many-frame-drops-on-wayland-with-youtube-playback), so no idea where to begin to help.

    • steam@programming.devOP
      41·
      3 hours ago

      i did try firefox too and couldn’t get the gpu to work there. and frames were dropping too

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
    91·
    3 hours ago

    Well enjoy all the enshittification. That to be free of that doesn’t seem worth a few small problems boggles my mind.

  • elfpie@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 hour ago

    How long have you tried Linux / Ubuntu before you left it? Have you tried other distros? Your issue is real, but the solution might be something more radical than a small fix. Maybe it’s too late this time, but try some options next time you decide to explore Linux.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Did you find out what’s causing this? I found some Reddit threads with people having similar issues with Brave and Chrome-based browsers…

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Bummer. Yeah I had issues with browser video playback myself. And both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers have so many hidden options, intransparent GPU blocklists… And then people do silly stuff and install third-party browsers which don’t come from the package repositories, so they haven’t been tuned for the specific distribution. And that adds yet another layer of complexity… Luckily it just works out of the box on my current laptop, and in the future I’m not going to install any Nvidia drivers on my machine, either. That has been just too many tweaks for my taste. Though I heard it got a bit better with them. Sorry to hear you can’t make it work. I don’t think watching YouTube should be as hard as it is for some people. (BTW, using Firefox has additional advantages, like a working ad blocker available as an addon, so I for example don’t have to watch any of the multiple 30s pre-roll ads on YouTube. On the downside, Firefox always sucked with graphics acceleration and it still does. Should be fine on Windows, though.)