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.

  • @dnls
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    Is your os installed in a vm? No gpu acceleration?

    • @[email protected]
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      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.)

  • @RageAgainstTheRich
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I’ve always been curious why this isn’t enabled by default on Firefox on Linux, do you know why that’s the case?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    This may be a stupid question but is your video cable plugged into the gpu or into the motherboard?

    • Iapar
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      121 year ago

      Great question! I fuck that up every time.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        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?”

        “…”

        🤦‍♂️

  • Atemu
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    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 [email protected].

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    • @[email protected]
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      The thing with suse is nVidia maintains a repo for SUSE and OpenSUSE, so nVidia works well on it for obvious reasons.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    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.

  • @474D
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I have nvidia 1060 and popos is working likea charm. Was thinking what distro to choose, but have no reason to look any further

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    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

      • @angrymouse
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        It is? I didn’t understood that, he said was using the KDE based distro in VM tests.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          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.

          • @angrymouse
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            21 year ago

            Yeah, the way it is phrased is not clear, I can see how you understood that too

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I have had weird issues with Tumbleweed too. Never any issues with Arch based distros. I suggest trying EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux. Love both

    • BaroqueInMind
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      11 year ago

      Or just do a pure arch install by just running archinstall in the original ISO from their website and following their wiki.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      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.

  • ghu
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    21 year ago

    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.