Anyone with recent experience with #GnomeWeb / #Epiphany browser? Is it any good for someone who doesn't want to get lost in technical stuff? And maybe isn't all that bright to start with?
@Nezchan If simplicity is what you value most, you probably will like it, just make sure you are indeed running the latest version. It's good especially if you don't want to be overwhelmed by a complicated web browser. It has room for improvement on the performance side of things, but most folks won't notice what I consider to be slow.
@Nezchan Video playback on YouTube and Vimeo (or HTML5 videos in general) works for me on Epiphany 45 on Fedora 39… You probably need to install additional GStreamer plugins packages from your distro; alternatively, have you tried the Flatpak version (from Flathub) just in case, to rule out distro codecs issues? Flatpaks typically come bundled with everything the authors have deemed necessary for the intended user experience.
Well, that almost worked. With the flatpak version I get sound but no video. Same on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok, although the latter at least shows me a thumbnail rather than a black space.
@Nezchan Huh 🤔️ that is… quite surprising to me, I would've expected it to "Just Work". Maybe there's an issue somewhere in MATE's graphics stack / drivers or something 🤷️
@Nezchan@nekohayo are you using an Nvidia graphics card? Video playback does not work on Nvidia because the proprietary Nvidia drivers do not support it yet
@Nezchan@nekohayo WebKitGTK has improved the media playback handling to be more efficient. However, Nvidia drivers don't support this new output format yet. An Nvidia developer has indicated that the format may be supported in driver version 550
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Oh of course nVidia, why didn't I think of that 🤦️
You wouldn't believe the amount of issues we see related to such hardware across the freedesktop middleware. There's a reason I got rid of all nVidia hardware in 2008-2010 (when AMD started making open drivers to compete with Intel) and since then refuse to touch any machine with those GPUs. #nVidia on #Linux is pain incarnate if you want things to "Just Work" as a user without specialized needs.
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