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[bwat47]

You should get hardware decoding as long as:

- You're running a wayland compositor

- You're launching firefox with MOZ_ENAB...

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Firefox is way ahead of chrome when it comes to wayland support...

[bwat47]

it will come: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258

in the meantime you can use the h264ify extension...

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A red hat employee has been working on this. He's only interested in the wayland implementation, but if anyone wants to work on implementing for xorg...

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the way I see it, both canonical and red hat do a lot for the linux desktop, so I don't see the need to be a fanboy of one and a hater of the other. I...

[bwat47]

You're pretty off the mark with this example. The equivalent scenario would be more like if nvidia had taken up maintainership of Nouveau, and there was...

[bwat47]

lack of fusing mounting in the filemanager has long been my biggest issue with kde...

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I use gnome on wayland every day on my laptop, it works fine...

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Finally, the lack of decorations on wayland was so annoying

[bwat47]

The last few versions have been very stable on wayland. I'm using it natively on wayland right now (with webrender too) and it works great....

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Seriously, why bother making a comment like this? If you don't like the distro don't use it....

[bwat47]

VA-API does work with wayland, but only if your video player is using wayland natively (it does not work with Xwayland)...

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Webrender is about GPU performance, and suprise suprise the GPU heavy benchmark is the one that shows the improvement

The JavaScript benchmarks...

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If your firefox hasn't gotten the fix yet, doing the following should trigger firefox to install the hotfix:

Preferences | Privacy and Security...

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It was fixed: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/505...