Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by acomjean on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:09AM (#31528587)

I haven’t noticed or didn’t care that the content was in SD on Linux. I was pretty happy it worked. Use a Roku for streaming HD to the tv for the few things I watch there.

There is a weird “wildvine” plugin thing that chrome and Firefox use for video drm for some services. I think that enables video.

Linux seems to be the only OS that is respectful of the user.

But desktop Linux has come really far. It my daily driver on my home machine and I’m switching to it at work (or cluster is Linux anyway). I’m hardly a sys admin type and it’s been working great for me the past few years. Even steam works on Linux now.

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Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by ridgered4 on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:27AM (#31528764)

Yeah, I see this repeated a lot but I haven't really noticed a difference. Maybe I'm just not picky on the topic. But my understanding was it was never traditional SD, but 720p.

Regardless, I use firefox and Amazon, Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max all work reliably for me. I believe there was a period were a couple of them didn't work for a month or two on linux when they came out but I wasn't subscribed to them then and they've always worked for me.

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Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by formerly_proven on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:51AM (#31529002)

Quality on streaming services isn't good anyway, and depending on the exact hardware and devices you have connected you won't get "HD" on Windows, either.

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