[pgsandstrom]

I've coded on linux for a decade now, but always used windows at home. Just last week I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu on my media computer since it cant upgrade to windows 11.

I open up firefox, go to youtube, and immediately notice that 30% of all frames are gone. Hardware acceleration isnt working.

I put the computer to sleep and go make dinner. When I return my wireless keyboard cant wake it up, I have to hard-reboot the computer to wake it up.

I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems, and it start spitting out terminal commands that end up making no difference.

In my experience, 2025 is not yet the year of linux. I'll try again in 2027.

[j_w]

You ask ChatGPT for answers to questions and your surprised that random terminal commands don't work? If you look at linux forums, all issues always include hardware and software versions. Some problems are extremely context dependent.

Hardware acceleration isn't working -> what GPU? Do you have the right drivers installed (yes for Linux this is a consideration as there are so many display configurations not all drivers cough nvidia work for all scenarios).

You also didn't specify anything like the quality you were trying to playback at. Is this 30% dropped frames at 4k60 or 1080p30? You can argue that this is too much detail for something that should "just work" but given where you are and what you're talking about I would think you would be more nuanced in the troubleshooting. If you want the most seemless and effort free web browsing and media viewing experience just buy a macbook air (good product and also good dev machines for most).

[max51]

Is it even worth the time searching on forums to fix these issues? I can't speak for OP... but if an OS I freshly installed is unable to watch youtube videos and wake up from sleep, I'm wiping it and installing something else unless I can fix it extremely easily (eg. with chatgpt).

>You also didn't specify anything like the quality you were trying to playback at.

If hardware acceleration isn't working, it doesn't matter which youtube video made you realize the issue existed. It's not as if the method you use to fix the driver would be different when the video you want to watch is 1080p30 instead of 4k60.

[j_w]

I think the issue is how people view their operating system then. If you think an operating system (which for the sake of this I'll allow to mean the distro for linux) should just install and "work" with no configuration needed, then linux on abnormal hardware is not for you. Whether or not a small amount of effort to search for solutions to a problem or to learn more about system configuration being "worth the time" is up to the reader to decide.

[lproven]

I don't know if you're trying to make a rhetorical point here, by giving a sort of worked example of "how to go about this the wrong way and give useless feedback in the form of a complaint."

If not... Well, wow, I really hope you're not "coding on Linux" for anything important.

What did you do wrong?

> I switched from windows 10 to ubuntu

1. What version of Ubuntu?

2. After installing, did you update?

2a. If so, how? Firefox is a snap; doing an update with the "apt" or "apt-get" commands won't touch it.

3. Did you install graphics drivers? Did you even check if you need them?

4. Did you try Chrome? Youtube is a Google product. Test with the Google browser. It's about 2 clicks to install it.

5.

> my wireless keyboard cant wake it up

Well known issue with some wireless devices (especially Bluetooth). Don't use them if you have an alternative.

6.

> I ask chatgpt about solutions to these problems

It's a predictive text tool. Of course it can't. Don't use LLM bots for search. Better still, don't use them at all.

7.

> In my experience

From what you posted, this is scant and poor.

[tropicalfruit]

yeah all these "move to linux" posts i feel are virtue signalling. its bad advice for most imo.