Zoom actually works fine under chromium on OpenBSD, with full microphone/webcam support. It just requires some configuration to enable a few things which are disabled by default for security reasons.
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#enablerec
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#webcam
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/chromium...
Re:OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems
by morganvachon on Sunday March 20, 2022 @08:33PM
(#30748511)
> Or video accelerated YouTube
You can get GPU accelerated YouTube videos in OpenBSD, provided you have a supported GPU in the first place. You have to use Firefox and enable gfx.webrender.all and layers.acceleration.force-enabled in about:config. I've been able to get up to 2Kp60 smooth as butter on Intel HD 530 graphics in OpenBSD 7.0. 4Kp60 plays and drops a few frames, but my monitor is 2K so I have no need for 4K playback anyway.
Re:OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems
by wolverine876 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:31PM
(#30737340)
Most people do most things in a web browser these days. Can't Microsoft Office be used as a hosted app in a browser, at least the bulk of common functionality?
Re:OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems
by hsbauauvhabzb on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:11PM
(#30738405)
Only if you want something more useless and buggy than the thick client.
Or video accelerated YouTube.. Or Microsoft office..
Really, I love OpenBSD, but I only really use it for (internet) networking these days, FreeBSD looks after my storage, and it's all proxmox with ubuntu 20.04 vms running k8s for apps.
Someday I'll switch back, but working as a freelancer with a lot of different customers bsds are just too painful to run bare metal (def works with ssh/mosh/tmux though!)