I just want the Manjaro Arm to not fizzle the gui’s and run Firefox at speeds faster than 1980s era internet…

Or any desktop distro, even gnome or ubuntu

  • Gianni R@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    YouTube serves VP9 video (and more recently a lot of AV1) and I think the Pis only have hardware accelerated decoding of H.264/5 as it stands today

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      3 months ago

      this is why h264ify is a pre-installed extension in RPiOS’ builds of browsers.

      made sense, until the Pi 5 dropped h264 hw decode. still waiting for a good explanation of that.

      It’s a good thing projects like Armbian are steadily improving support for Rockchip-based SBCs, to open up the market beyond Raspberry.