Yes, but mixing in 3D hardware acceleration was apparently quite difficult to achieve until systemd came along to make it somewhat painless.

It's not fanboy BS though, AMD encoders used to be pretty rough compared to Nvidia's, specially at lower bitrates.

They've improved a lot as the generations went on however, to the point I believe that advice no longer applies.

What magic incantation are you using? My OBS either crashes with the ffmpeg setting or uses software enc, and is always blurry. Firefox does all video and audio enc+dec on CPU. Am on all-AMD NixOS and so far gave up on any hw accel for media.

Well I'll be damned! AMD does seem to have up their encoder game with the Navi series onward.

They were rightfully called out as having pretty bad encoders before that though, which I personally experienced on an RX 480 I used to have in my system. It made parsec a bit blurry and added quite a bit of latency.

Also, I would stand by the recommendation to avoid older office PC's with AMD graphics, since none of them are going to have Navi graphics.

It want that long ago. Just read any OBS posts. Honestly I haven't kept up with it for a while. A quick search shows discussions continue. Does appear most still think Nvidia has the best quality.

AMD used to be the shit on Linux a decade ago, much better support than Nvidia. It looks like something changed, but I only use discrete intel GPUs so I’m way out of the loop.

Home PCs are so powerful these days that a return to thin clients makes sense in many use cases.

I will admit I became a bit giddy at the prospect of using a beefy Linux rig like it's 1971, as our Lord and Saviors Dennis Richie & Ken Thompson intended. 😌

The Gibson making a comeback.

And technically you can still do that, but it's super laggy. Playing a game through X11 forwarding would be horrendous

You still can, as far as I know! It's just that I don't think X would have the throughput for games. I recently learned about that functionality in a Cathode Ray Dude video, where he shows how it even got ported to Windows 3.11!