i got all my games to work on linux,cyberpunk,stellar blade,high on life 2 everything. but i get framedrops on brave in youtube. everything has a fix right? right? apparently not,i read about 20 forum pages,delved into arch wiki,asked many ais what to do and couldn’t get my gpu to work on the browser to solve framedrops.
i had same problem on windows,what did i do there? i made brave work by gpu in nvidia control panel and problem solved.
so yeah ,i did really like linux,yes gaming works great on it. but small issuses like this is what breaks the immersion. and i want a computer that works good with enough effort,not one that has eternal problems. im sure linux will solve these problems someday. bye
What distro did you use? Don’t tell me you used Arch Linux… That’s not beginner friendly at all.
I’d advise you to use Mint or Ubuntu (preferably the first). When I have NVidia drivers I usually used one that is install through “additional drivers” app, because those are the ones which were tested for your distro. But if you have a really new GPU, there might be an issue because devs weren’t able to update the drivers and test them.
brave
I cannot fathom why anyone would be using Brave browser, but it’s not really fair to claim this is a Linux problem.
nvidia
Nvidia are famously anti-Linux/pro-MS and their drivers are notoriously hard to get working on Linux. Again, not a Linux problem per se, and many people simply use AMD instead (because the drivers are in the kernel, no installation needed). YMMV, but if you had games working, you probably had drivers working, so it sounds like this isn’t actually related to your issue.
i had same problem on windows
Again, issue with Brave. Use a better browser.
on brave
lmao. Yeah, keep that bullshit on Windows.
has to be ragebait
- This is not a common issue that Linux users experience.
- You didn’t mention if you tried, and if the same issue happened, on different browsers.
- There are many ways to install Brave: Flatpak, Snap (since you mentioned in a post you used Ubuntu), different Distros packages, unofficial AppImage, and Brave Release, Brave Beta and Brave Nightly. If that’s a bug with the browser, a different version or a different package could have managed it.
- “Small issues like this” does not break the immersion. It’s really dishonest to say that Windows 11 is free of issues (either small or big). Specially when this problem you had is hardly a ‘Linux’ issue, and likely an issue with either Brave or your setup.
- Just because you looked for answers, for an uncommon issue, on Arch’s wiki and “many AIs”, it doesn’t mean you looked for the right answers and neither that you did the right questions, or even that you understood what you were actually reading.
- And finally, no Linux will not “solve these problems someday”, because Linux will never be a perfect OS where everything, on every hardware, runs problem-free, specially because a lot of issues are not “Linux”'s fault, but software or hardware related issues. But Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, or whatever the fuck OS you think about are definitely not perfect either, and will never be.
But you did well coming back to Windows. It’s the perfect place for people that does not like to think.
Nothing wrong with preferring windows. Lots of people stay on it. The people here prefer Linux, including myself. No harm in having a preference 👍
ha, here’s some bait
what breaks the immersion
This isn’t a game, it’s about your freedom, our freedom.
If you want to use Brave to watch YouTube… well I don’t think you really care. The fact that somehow watching a video on a gaming rig isn’t fast enough so clearly not normal. That being said honestly it’s good you did try.
If you decide to try Linux again, ask for help here and/or the support forum for your chosen distro instead of an AI. They tend to hallucinate and come up with overly complex or impossible solutions sometimes.
Mozilla has a matrix channel that specializes in graphics issues for Firefox.
But at what cost?
Brave is the problem here, not Linux.
nvidia is a bigger problem imo.
i know for a fact that that they build and test their products on linux, but still refuse to make their products fully functional w linux.
i did try firefox too and couldn’t get the gpu to work there. and frames were dropping too
Sorry to hear. I came off way too snarky here.
I’m sure there are ways to force programs to use a certain GPU?
TBH brave might merit even more snark.
Sad to see you go. Every Linux user is one less person relying on our corporate overlords.
If you would like to give feedback to Brave, you can do so at https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues, where you should include your OS, hardware, and installed drivers.
Going with Arch as a first Linux is certainly a choice, and I’d guess a random library is missing. If you are still interested in Linux and it’s also happening in other browsers, I would recommend trying other distros with more “mainstream” appeal (e.g., installed desktop environments and drivers), such as Fedora, Mint, or CachyOS for rolling releases.
I’m also quite new to all this stuff, so if I’m wrong on something, please tell me.
i didnt use arch tho i used ubuntu. yes i used the archwiki,bec i attempted to translate its instructions to smth that would work in ubuntu by asking ai how to do it. since that was last resort as i didnt find working sources for ubuntu
We all know nvidia sucks with Linux , you should have tried a distro which supports nvidia oob, idt Ubuntu was the right choice
Do you have some obscure hardware? I have multiple desktops running Ubuntu or similar, and have not had any issues with browser video playback. At home an AMD GPU, at work an NVIDIA one. Admittedly, I use firefox.
I changed from Gnome to KDE to fix the framedrops in Firefox YouTube. Intel i7-13700H.
i have msi gf 63 thin10sc laptop with gtx1650,i5-10500h,16gb ram and an ssd.
so i think it should be strong enough for youtube and isnt that obscure.
the framedrops only happened if the video was 60fps but they were noticable. it did happen on firefox too
What hardware do you run, and do you still need help?
Arch is very different from Debian based Linux, where even the same packages can have different names, so using the Arch Wiki for non Arch based Linux distros is not recommended.
I don’t know which drivers are preinstalled on Ubuntu, and some people also seem to have problems with frame drops (e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1520102/why-do-i-get-so-many-frame-drops-on-wayland-with-youtube-playback), so no idea where to begin to help.
i used msi gf63 thin10sc laptop. i no longer need help
Good to have you back in the corpo., kid. Stay blind as we shunt you into a new era of authoritarianism. You’re absolutely right. Freedom is inconsequential compared to framedrops. Framedrops should never happen. Linux is far too buggy to be used. It’s little more than a toy at this stage. Check back in ten years. Until then your trusty Windoz3 eleben with enhancements from Givbidia will distract you! No, don’t look there! Ad!
Why do you use brave anyway? It’s spyware
Offer a fuckin alternative then!
firefox or any of it’s forks
thats misinformation. brave is open source you’re free to check its code and point out which part is “spyware” besides i had the same problem with firefox too
Apart from the spyware… Do you really want to click endless ads for crypto bullshit so you can make $2 or $4 per year?
I tried that for a long time. It’s far more miserable than a regular browser with regular ad blockers. Not worth the worthless BAT.
It is not misinformation. Brief summary here: https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/04/06/why-i-recommend-against-brave/
Use that as a springboard and get rid of brave
Nothing there that even suggests there’s any spying going on. They’ve done some shady shit, but as far as I know, nothing that could be interpreted as "spying*.
Well, it does compromise your privacy
You can build all kinds of shady and privacy–hostile features into closed source projects, as opt out, and only remove them once people find out.
I see a lot of people dog pilling on the down votes and getting all rilled up on someone that did try and unfortunately did not make things work. Why? Did is the sort of behavior that drove me away from linux many years ago (I am back with fedora and things work quite better since then). When you are ready to help out and/or be more understandable then things improve. Until then, you are creating moats with people you didn’t even met or understand.
Come on, I like supporting n00bs, but this is low effort, bullshit trolling.
“I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas.”
And this person comes back to this linux community again and again with “my pirated games don’t work”. So many of us try to help this person, but they dont want a solution, they want to be disruptive.
This is OP’s i don’t know how many new account, constantly complaining about how pirated games (even games from respectable companies who should be paid for their awesome work, such as Cyberpunk) and things like Brave won’t work on Linux. It’s the same thing over and over again, just with different accounts.
That’s where my downvote comes from. I would love to help (if i could), and many others here would too, but this is just getting really annoying.
Sock puppet accounts, and Federation making brigading easier. There’s no vote fuzzing, anti-brigade heuristics, IP-based rate limiting across instances, shadow detection or algorithmic smoothing. -Reddit has all that but still has vote manipulation problems.
It’s just another Linux propaganda issue that shows more on Lemmy. -But at least Lemmy doesn’t promote based on vote score.
The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.
