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.
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’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.
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
What's the browser you're using ? and also please do:
glxinfo|egrep -i "^direct"You're looking for a line that says "direct rendering"; specifically whether or not it says "yes". This will help pinpoint if you're actually using your GPU or some onboard chipset instead.
With that being said, even assuming you use the latter, stuttering video playback in the browser is weird; if using firefox, out of curiosity: try to disable or enable hardware rendering (options > advanced > general), and try again. Switch it back to what it was when your test is done.
If it's only on YouTube then it could be a non-chrome browser issue and/or youtube being messed up from the anti ad-blocker stuff. YouTube has been very glitchy over the past month and even so for the past couple of weeks.
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.
Maybe I wouldn't have had any problems if I tried a more stable distro like Debian. I guess it all depends on what you want to use your PC for and if you like to tinker.
Is it only on YouTube? Have you tried another browser or watching a video locally?
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.
I would recommend Zorin OS, but honestly, anything goes, as long as you can get it running properly. No harm in trying another distro if the current doesn't function well.
I have installed zorin on another pc and it worked okay, but I wanted to try kde for the customization as well. I will probably try fedora kionite next and if that doesn't work i don't know.
