Just a heads up: This thing will not work for watching streaming services in anything but terrible quality, and I don’t expect this to be fixed with a software update either. This is true for any Linux (except Android if you count that).
I have seen some misleading media coverage where journalists think this will work in the browser. It will not.
The DRM stuff demanded by the content industry doesn’t exist, as it would presumably be too easy to circumvent in an open source OS.
There is a basic level widevine DRM included in official Firefox/Chrome for Linux, but last time I checked Netflix will only give you at best 720p with this, Amazon Prime gives you some bitrate-starved 480p.
And no, there is no workaround for this except piracy.
I don’t know why you’d use this to stream anything, it’d be like firing a cruise missile to kill one mosquito. Buy a Chromecast or similar cheap streaming device.
As with anticheat games which pushed the popularity of other non slop games on Linux, the widevine support tiers situation will have the long term positive effect of teaching people how to torrent and seed.
I wonder if you can circumvent it with a windows virtual machine?
Easy Anti-Cheat runs natively on Linux, but this needs to be explicitly enabled by the publisher. Valve may have the clout to move this along for better or worse.
(Obligatory disclaimer that all client-side anti-cheat software is malware.)
In my heart of hearts maybe Valve could work out a modified, proprietary version of the linux kernel with the anti-cheat blobs required to appease these corpos. But Linux is notoriously not well suited for third party, out-of-tree kernels, especially the proprietary functionality required for this to work.
Just a heads up: This thing will not work for watching streaming services in anything but terrible quality, and I don’t expect this to be fixed with a software update either. This is true for any Linux (except Android if you count that).
I have seen some misleading media coverage where journalists think this will work in the browser. It will not.
The DRM stuff demanded by the content industry doesn’t exist, as it would presumably be too easy to circumvent in an open source OS. There is a basic level widevine DRM included in official Firefox/Chrome for Linux, but last time I checked Netflix will only give you at best 720p with this, Amazon Prime gives you some bitrate-starved 480p.
And no, there is no workaround for this except piracy.
I would never have noticed this problem because piracy is already my default (and should be yours too)
Still paying for streaming services in currentyear is to be shamed
Ok but who sings up for Linux and also pays to watch media?
I don’t know why you’d use this to stream anything, it’d be like firing a cruise missile to kill one mosquito. Buy a Chromecast or similar cheap streaming device.
People use their living room PCs and PlayStations for this, which this competes with.
As with anticheat games which pushed the popularity of other non slop games on Linux, the widevine support tiers situation will have the long term positive effect of teaching people how to torrent and seed.
I wonder if you can circumvent it with a windows virtual machine?
Easy Anti-Cheat runs natively on Linux, but this needs to be explicitly enabled by the publisher. Valve may have the clout to move this along for better or worse.
(Obligatory disclaimer that all client-side anti-cheat software is malware.)
In my heart of hearts maybe Valve could work out a modified, proprietary version of the linux kernel with the anti-cheat blobs required to appease these corpos. But Linux is notoriously not well suited for third party, out-of-tree kernels, especially the proprietary functionality required for this to work.
But I mean
just play better games ffs.