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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by glitching@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

running the stuff in the title, tried a buncha switches for chromium/electron stuff but still the load mesured with e.g. amdgpu_top doesn't show "Media" usage. playing other stuff (VLC, Dragon, mpv) shows "Media" usage, which means those are using hardware acceleration.

edit: in the meantime tried the portable version as well, same results so it isn't a flatpak issue.

edit 2: as @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml found, running portable and flatpak with --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks under X11/Xwayland produces hardware accelerated video. that doesn't seem to be the case with wayland, the media graph stays at 0% and there's a buncha dropped frames with e.g. 4K video.

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[-] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I ain't your brah mate.

Look, I am not that antagonistic man, no need to be this riled up. My main issue is that I lurk these threads to help people with their linux issues to help adoption, but we really have a lot of threads were flatpak is the issue, you can check the history.

I am sorry you did check to see if the native one works and reproduced the issue, I somehow understood the exact contrary, I apologize.

The next time I will ask the user to reproduce te issue with the native version before I start my rant.

My usecase is to turn on my machine in the morning, edit some text files and run a browser and some command line tools. Then i turn it off in the evening, nothing special. I got no beef with wayland and especially nothing against systemd btw.

Is there any chanche that your reboot aversion is due to wayland's issues with session restoration?

this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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