BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by anthk on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:05PM (#22002997)

Linux could do that in 2001 just fine, and without crashing like Windows. XV was amazing. So was MPlayer.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by Octoth0rpe on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:23PM (#22003225)

> without crashing like Windows

That depended _very_ heavily on your graphics card at the time. In 2001, I could get X to crash on my work computer if I shook my mouse too fast. At home on my matrox card, yes, it was rock stable.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by anthk on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:40PM (#22005442)

Nvidia TNT2/Geforce2 MX later.

EDIT: Also, Slackware was rock solid and it crashed far less than SuSE/Mandrake.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by danieldk on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:24PM (#22003893)

High definition playback is still not as smooth as it could be in browsers on Linux (or if your CPU is fast enough, it will drain your battery more quickly), because most browsers only have experimental support for video acceleration.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hardware_video_accelera...

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by ac29 on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:35PM (#22016770)

Pretty much any CPU released in the past decade should be capable of decoding 1080P video as well as a GPU (though yes, will use slightly more power). The only exceptions I can think of are early generation Atom processors, which were terribly slow.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by danieldk on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:54AM (#22025096)

Pretty much any CPU released in the past decade should be capable of decoding 1080P video as well as a GPU (though yes, will use slightly more power).

The point is that modern GPUs have hardware decoding for common codecs, and will use far less power than CPU decoding. But the major browsers on Linux (Firefox and Chrome) disable hardware decoding on Linux, because $PROBLEMS.

So, you end up with battery draining CPU-based 1080p decoding. And even more battery draining or choppy 4k decoding.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by slim on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:14PM (#22005841)

I found Wayland more capable than xwindows in this regard

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by pjmlp on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#22003443)

In 2001 I could still hang X Windows as much as I liked.

And it still happens occasionally, while my Windows 10 userspace drivers just reinitialize instead of locking the OS.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by aeyes on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#22003982)

I think most hangs on Linux today are caused by low memory pressure, see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20620545

No swap, some swap, huge swap, swappiness=0, zram - nothing helped me.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by acdha on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:24PM (#22005940)

Linux could do that only if your system was lightly loaded. Once you started to have I/O contention, none of the available kernel schedulers could reliably avoid stuttering.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by fouc on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:05PM (#22006839)

I had this experience too, my video card was so shitty that I wasn't able to watch 700mb divx videos in windows, I had to boot into linux and use mplayer.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by blihp on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:42PM (#22006189)

Don't forget about xanim

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by com2kid on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:19PM (#22003838)

Windows 2000 was rock solid stable with uptime measured in "how long do I keep running before I get bored if bragging about my uptime?"

No comment in regards to the 9x line. ;)

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