HW video decoding is now available and by default on in Chrome on at least Ubuntu with my Intel iGPU. I was also surprised when they turned it on under the radar. I saw this the other day debugging a problem and saw others see it too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1ojydv9/comment/nm8...
replyHW decoding works fine. But some distros (looking at you Fedora) have legal issues around providing it out of the box.
replyCall me crazy, but most people working typically leave their laptops wired in to either a charger or a hub so they can have more monitors. I know some people will go through the effort of charging and pulling the cord, and charging later, but most people don't want to micromanage something they can forget about while working. If you're living on battery life for a work call, it would not matter if you're on Windows, changes are high your batterly life will self-terminate quicker than you realize.
replyAmong Linux users, long battery life is for in-office workers (who leave their desk to attend meetings) in hybrid companies (where no meetings are laptop-free) in roles that sometimes involve back-to-back meetings.
replyBut these people would already have a company-provisioned laptop.
replyI thought the idea was the Framework is the company-provisioned one. Or are they letting people do corp work on personal laptops?
replyI don't want to maintain state on two laptops
replyWith the right tooling, the state is minimal and gets synchronized between laptops.
replyCPU decoding/encoding for video means warm chassis + spinning fans. Fan noise is very annoying with video calls.
replyFirefox has had GPU video decoding in Linux on by default since 2023 for Intel and 2025 for AMD from what I've read
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