I chose to use opensuse tw kde based on some vm tests. The installation was easy but for some reason the video playback on youtube is terrible. It stutters. First thing I did after install was to use opi to install codecs. Then I used Yast to get the Nvidia repo. Lastly, I used the software manager to install the video g06 driver.

To be honest I am happy using Windows 10 but I wanted to try Linux again because of the privacy and security, but there always seems to be something whenever I try to use linux. Should I keep using Windows or try a different distro?

My specs:

1080ti, ryzen 2600, msi b450 tomahawk.

Update: It was the secure boot setting. Nvidia drivers don’t work with it on I guess. Thanks for all the other information though, more to look into.

  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 months ago

    For OP and other people with this issue, make sure you set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true in about:config in firefox. Unless you do that, hardware video acceleration often wont be used.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
        2·
        11 months ago

        Hardware acceleration has been turned on on Linux by default only recently. In terms of hardware capabilities, Firefox is a bit behind the curve on Linux.

        This may be behind a toggle because it requires libva support, which requires additional software for your specific hardware that isn’t always installed by default. VAAPI also isn’t officially supported on Nvidia (it can be enabled, but through a third party project) and not every driver is as stable.

        According to Fedora’s wiki, VAAPI support has been enabled by default since Firefox 101 on Intel/AMD GPUs.

      • infeeeee@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 months ago

        It brakes some things. I tried to enable it on my main desktop, but some site were not working properly, I don’t remember exactly what was the problem, but for me, with a decent desktop CPU, everything was better without it. On my low end laptop it helped a lot with intel graphics. It depends on your hardware, and they bet on the safe side.