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.
Is your os installed in a vm? No gpu acceleration?
That would be the most important question.
(I usually don’t advertise for using Linux in a VM on Windows. There are use-cases for that. But it combines the downsides of Windows with the limitations of your VM software and issues on Linux (for example the proprietary NVidia drivers and whatever they do to pass through parts of the hardware, or weird stuff VirtualBox does). And it can make it slow(er) to unusable in some cases. None of that has anything to do with Linux, but people try it that way and blame issues on Linux, when it’s really the VM software’s fault. (Or you ticked the wrong config checkbox.)
A better way to do it would be trying a live image on an USB stick, testing performance and then looking for performance issues within your whole virtualization stack if you absolutely have to use Linux within a VM. This is certainly possible. I usually dual-boot. Or do it the other way around, Windows inside a VM on a Linux host. But I don’t really use Windows, so I’m not a good example.)
For OP and other people with this issue, make sure you set
media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabledto true inabout:configin firefox. Unless you do that, hardware video acceleration often wont be used.I’ve always been curious why this isn’t enabled by default on Firefox on Linux, do you know why that’s the case?
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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.
TIL
I didn’t have it set to true but I also never noticed any problem
I don’t think that’s gonna work because this is a thing that he needs
This may be a stupid question but is your video cable plugged into the gpu or into the motherboard?
Great question! I fuck that up every time.
My brother and a friend built his computer and couldn’t figure this out. He called me a couple days later to vent some frustration and I said exactly the same thing.
“I know this is a stupid question, but is your Dport plugged into the mobo or the dedicated graphics card?”
“…”
🤦♂️
I’ve seen other comments suggest possibly trying a different distro, if that is the case I’d highly recommend Pop!_OS. They have an Nvidia specific ISO that works brilliantly, I’ve not had any issues with it.
If this is a VM, video playback stutters do not surprise me one bit. There’s many layers between the video and the image you see on screen here and they’re not optimised for viewing fidelity. This is likely not due to Linux but because you’re running this inside a with an emulated GPU. GUIs in VMs usually suck.
Optional codecs won’t help for Youtube since they serve royalty-free codecs such as VP9 or AV1 most of the time rather than patent-encoumbered codecs such as H.264 and free codecs are always installed.
That would also not fix stutters, only videos not playing back at all (because there’d be no decoder that could).If this is a VM, installing the Nvidia driver also won’t do anything because the machine has no access to your host’s GPU. Not that the nvidia driver would change anything about videos since no sane browser supports their proprietary crap driver, so it’s software decoding either way.
You should try this on real hardware. You technically don’t even need to install as most GUI distros have a graphical installer with Firefox etc. pre-installed that you can use to test this.
If you have an Nvidia GPU, I’d recommend you to try !pop_os@lemmy.world.
I hate to sound like a recording, but Nvidia is nearly always the issue. Plus it’s rare to find someone choosing suse as their toe-tip into Linux. Grab Pop!_OS for Nvidia and try that. When you’re more familiar with Linux then you can start poking around.
The thing with suse is nVidia maintains a repo for SUSE and OpenSUSE, so nVidia works well on it for obvious reasons.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Is it only on YouTube? Have you tried another browser or watching a video locally?
my experiece is that with nvidia you can’t just choose which distro you want to use, you need to try them out and find the one that works. for me mint cinnamon worked great out of the box, i use the xanmod kernel on it because of load balancing. i’m still very much a noob but i have almost completely ditched windows, only need it for excel and word. also pop os gets praise for playing nicely with nvidia. not sure if running on vm can cripple something in the system, have you tried booting from a live usb?
Well, kinda. openSUSE is directly supported by nVidia, they have a repo that nVidia hosts for SUSE openSUSE, leap amd tumbleweed. zero issues on my OpenSUSE machines, so their issue might be some other config / codec issue. packman repo is suggeated over OPI repos
I have nvidia 1060 and popos is working likea charm. Was thinking what distro to choose, but have no reason to look any further
what are you using as a hypervisor? if it is virtualbox you will struggle to get smooth video playback, its gpu support is very poor. vmware is much better. yes yes it is proprietary but so is virtualbox with extensions which is the only way to make it kinda usable lol
OP is running on bare metal. They used the VM for testing and have now moved on from that
It is? I didn’t understood that, he said was using the KDE based distro in VM tests.
based on some VM tests
Personally, this makes it seem like they have already done tests in a VM. OP would need to clarify for us though.
Yeah, the way it is phrased is not clear, I can see how you understood that too
I have had weird issues with Tumbleweed too. Never any issues with Arch based distros. I suggest trying EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux. Love both
Try Ubuntu first, then go to more advanced distros if needed
Please, don’t recommend Ubuntu. It actively gets in your way, even as a new user. Something like https://distrochooser.de/ could help OP figure out what distro works best for them.
I get that people don’t like snaps, but how is Ubuntu “actively” getting in anyone’s way?
Codecs
That’s U.S. patent law actively getting in your way, not the distros.
I assume this means “Ubuntu is known to distribute codecs that don’t work well” but since you gave me practically nothing that’s purely an assumption
With snaps and their weird approach to software management in general. I don’t have any idea which mainstream distro with KDE I could recommend since Mint doesn’t offer an official spin and Fedora doesn’t have the same LTS release cycle as Ubuntu.
So I’m kind of at a loss here, as there don’t seem to be sensible beginner distros anymore.
I was recommended opensuse first lol. Good thing I found the solution.
I recently installed Linux Mint on my laptop and all video play on Firefox stutters. I’m using chrome temporarily since that works fine until I fix it. Idk if it’s the same issue but just throwing it out there.
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No, it was the secure boot setting. Almost everything worked well enough with it off. However, not well enough for me not to go back to windows. Oh well, maybe in another 10 years.
Not sure about the opi method but I installed an opensuse tw recently with same nvidia/ryzen config and everything works just fine.
Enabled nvidia and packman essentials in yast and replaced the system packages. That’s option 3 here.
