This is such a silly way to pick a distribution. How much faster is one vs another going to be for browsing? Imperceptibly! Best for you just to 1) pick the right browsers 2) learn to optimize your system 3) learn to optimize your browser(s).
I would recommend (in order):
-- pale moon
-- ungoogled-chromium
-- waterfox
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Guest repliedOriginally posted by calc View Post
In addition to the type of acceleration they discuss in that page I'm talking about hardware video acceleration, ie va-api. Without it playing a H264/HEVC/etc video eats nearly all CPU, causes fans to spin at full speed, etc. Chrome/Chromium still does not support video acceleration under Linux even when checking various experimental boxes in config. It needs a patch that has existed for many years, at least since 2014, but is still not applied. Yet it works just fine under ChromeOS, it seems they have vested interest in not having it work under regular Linux.
The same general situation applies to Firefox as well.
The Firefox bug is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726
If someone can tell me how to use flash player nowaday to watch youtube and others I'll say him "thank you".Last edited by frank007; 30 March 2019, 08:23 AM.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostA good backup startegy is absolutely required if you use btrfs, you -will- need to restore from them sooner rather than later.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostIt's more like "many and various design flaws". Many of which are hardcoded into the disk layout and can't be fixed.
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Originally posted by V10lator View PostIt seems there's a mesa bug blocking the patches as it causes heavy corruption on AMD cards: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106490
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Originally posted by calc View PostIt needs a patch that has existed for many years, at least since 2014, but is still not applied. Yet it works just fine under ChromeOS, it seems they have vested interest in not having it work under regular Linux.
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I made myself a script to compile Chromium(would compile Firefox but it is harder) from Git with -mtune=native, -march=native, LTO + PGO and it runs significantly(the difference in the startup times is night and day) faster than any browser I could use - Chromium compiles all of its dependencies, so you basically optimize the entire stack, the dependencies + the browser itself.
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/3-ways-t...s-performance/
" There is some debate on whether hardware acceleration helps or harmsperformance"
Enabling that option causes troubles often.
The same general situation applies to Firefox as well.
The Firefox bug is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726Last edited by calc; 30 March 2019, 02:23 AM.
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The Fastest Linux Distributions For Web Browsing - Firefox + Chrome Benchmarks On Eight Distros
They don't have hardware acceleration disabled by a user config option, but at build time. You have to enable the options, and apply patches to get it to work. So even if you use something like --ignore-gpu-blacklist you still won't get video acceleration on Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, etc in 2019.
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