I used Chrome for many years and switched to Firefox because it performed noticeably better when multitasking. I noticed Firefox failing me some like a year or more later, and now I watch all videos on the internet through mpv. I’ve never been happier, I have x2, x4, or even like x128 speed on videos. Subtitle support isn’t usually as integrated, but I have whisperX and transcode my clips with ffmpeg if I need them.

I’m a very happy Linux user.

I even played a YouTube channels videos (over 1500) on random mode for an hour while driving today in the car. If people rode in the car with me, I’m sure they’d hate me, but it honestly made me so happy to be able to do all of it.

My experience with Gnome is that it’s good, but it’s lacking in some areas slightly. Like I think their video recorder is a toy recorder. (not for serious production video) And I think OBS videos through pipewire is also not production ready for streamers, I can’t stream through it without dropping lots and lots of frames. (like maybe 45 FPS with a 4090? and I think that’s being generous)

My experience with KDE is that these issues are resolved (or solved already?) more often. I use Gnome still, and maybe I’ll contribute soon in the future if my issues aren’t all user errors, but I would be embarrassed to recommend Gnome to someone who is making money from recording themselves on the computer.

I think you should be able to watch videos on YouTube at 60 FPS finally, but I remember when I first switched to Linux like 3 years ago after buying a 4090, I couldn’t find a distro that could handle 2x speed on YouTube without lagging and failing when watching 4k. (15 years after the XKCD comic?)

edit: I forgot to mention that I think Brave is based on Chrome, so they should have comparable performance.

Brave's been making, uh, some controversial philosophical design choices lately.

I mean, they had some before, but now they also have a few more lately that have riled people up a bit.