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.
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.
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.
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.
We all know nvidia sucks with Linux , you should have tried a distro which supports nvidia oob, idt Ubuntu was the right choice
- 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.
Why do you use brave anyway? It's spyware
Offer a fuckin alternative then!
firefox or any of it's forks
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
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.
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.
Oh well, never mind.
has to be ragebait
Hey, thanks for trying, maybe it will be better for you in a few years 😊
on brave
lmao. Yeah, keep that bullshit on Windows.
Well enjoy all the enshittification. That to be free of that doesn't seem worth a few small problems boggles my mind.
ha, here's some bait
Find a windows community then
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.
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.
bye
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!
I suspect the AI use is the problem.
AI are very keen on recommending deep modification of your system. And then they quickly forget they asked you to recompile your own kernel based on a 2014 forum post. I'm fairly knowledgeable on Linux and if I would have naïvely listened to Deepseek I would have destroyed my system many times. And that's even with prompts asking the AI to avoid outdated sources and to ask me for current configs.
I believe you would boot a liveUSB of cachyos, install that terrible idea of a browser and it would work straight away. Well if you ask AI on how to install it then it will probably recommend you to compile it yourself etc.. Or to use some weird AUR repo... So maybe that's the right context to actually use the Arch Wiki on an arch based distro ? But please, enough improvisation with AI, you breaking your system in a subtle but critical way is just one AI hallucination away.
So basically my advice is to try on cachyos without ever using AI. Just the wiki for cachyos, then the Arch wiki and finally the cachyos forum asking politely and in a detailed manner for help and being patient.
The very premise of all of this is still crazy though. There is no feature in Brave that would justify tossing a whole operating system for...
But at what cost?
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.
I couldn't imagine being so married to a specific browser that I chose Windows over Linux. Just grab Librewolf or some shit and move back. Seriously.
Nothing wrong with preferring windows. Lots of people stay on it. The people here prefer Linux, including myself. No harm in having a preference 👍
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.
I thought brave was a shitcoin promoter with fascists values or something. I've heard enough bad shit to not even bother trying it.
I'm sorry you had those issues, I know the pain, browsers have been a compromise for me on nvidia hardware and it seemed like I was the only one with a problem when searching for a solution.
If you ever decide to try again, cachyos is the only OS ive tried where browsers don't lag or drop frames (mostly, still something ocassional but mostly unnoticeable) so you might want to try that in your next attempt? Whenever that happens.
I'm sad to see so many comments lashing at you for expressing your opinion, but I'm glad to see at least a couple more reasonable ones. Hopefully next time you try there are more people ready to welcome you with open arms.
What drove me to linux more than anything was my profound hate for windows (which preceded me ever trying linux by a handful of years), I just couldn't fathom how so much money and r&d could culminate in such garbage (my opinion), there's no good reason for most problems to exist, at least when something happens in linux I know it's mostly a coordination problem between a dozen of unpaid developers that do it for the love of the game and have no relation or communication with eachother.
I'm glad to see people open to trying alternatives to it, mostly because I don't think anyone deserves suffering through windows.
Did you find out what's causing this? I found some Reddit threads with people having similar issues with Brave and Chrome-based browsers...
Bummer. Yeah I had issues with browser video playback myself. And both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers have so many hidden options, intransparent GPU blocklists... And then people do silly stuff and install third-party browsers which don't come from the package repositories, so they haven't been tuned for the specific distribution. And that adds yet another layer of complexity... Luckily it just works out of the box on my current laptop, and in the future I'm not going to install any Nvidia drivers on my machine, either. That has been just too many tweaks for my taste. Though I heard it got a bit better with them. Sorry to hear you can't make it work. I don't think watching YouTube should be as hard as it is for some people. (BTW, using Firefox has additional advantages, like a working ad blocker available as an addon, so I for example don't have to watch any of the multiple 30s pre-roll ads on YouTube. On the downside, Firefox always sucked with graphics acceleration and it still does. Should be fine on Windows, though.)
I think you should really try another distribution.
I had had long unsolvable problems with my daily driver and my HTPC.
I had a problem while updating from Fedora Workstation 43 to 44, so I went with Fedora Siverblue. That solved a problem I had had for years where my Surface Go would be slow for no reason when hooked to a big screen.
I had a problem on PopOS where my HTPC wasn’t able to adjust the framerate of my TV. Switching to LibreELEC solved every issue.
All of this just to say, that sometimes you can solve an issue by switching distribution even if it wasn’t your main goal.
You should check out BraveOS at this point I think.
Wat
im sure linux will solve these problems someday.
Problems are inherent and haven't been solved for 3 decades. You have unstable API/ABI in the kernel making Linux unfriendly for desktop (Android resolves it in their own way). You have anti-developer attitudes from users that drive the already poorly if not volunteer developers to quit or sellout. (Linux hates developers.)
BSD has a slightly different license (still FOSS), and they don't get the toxic community that Linux has.