Hey Jow Forumsuys I'm not very versed in computers and I'm fairly new to linux, but I've noticed a problem lately. I've added a CPU load monitor to my taskbar and I notice that the usage gets extremely high when watching Youtube videos and using my browser in general. I've tried both Firefox and Chromium but they both use up to 200% of my CPU just by having a single tab open and watching a video. If anyone knows a fix to this please share.
Pic related are my specs. It's on an ASUS laptop, model K556U.
Install Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility Update your kernel so at least 4.17 It's a lot better on this kernel
Don't be scared of updating your kernel. This updater is point and click. No terminalmagic required
Wyatt Campbell
Thanks bro, I'll try that out and see if it helps
Would like to keep Ubuntu if possible
Benjamin Jenkins
You can always switch back your kernel with this utility if nessesary
Austin Fisher
>Ubuntu Found the problem.
Don't fall for the gentoo meme, but Ubuntu is unironically bloated to hell. Have you considered your load monitor is wrong?
install htop sudo apt-get install htop and then run htop. htop It shows everything in a much more detailed manner. Post screenshot then
Jordan Foster
Here's the screenshot. I honestly just installed Ubuntu because it seemed the easiest to manage. As I've said I don't have a lot of experience, I've only ever used Windows before.
>install debian that's a feature FYI arch and maybe other distros like fedora don't have this problem
Ryder Clark
debian and any of it's offshoots have crap video performance, meaning to play a video they rape the cpu compared to what i've seen elsewhere on the same pc congrats, you fell for the real Jow Forums meme
Michael Lee
Install beigenet from ubuntu software center extensions. It will use the Intel GPU for decoding videos then Also you might wanna try firefox. Chome/Chromium is extremely shitty on linux
Ryder Cooper
Look homies, I'm going to be level with you. I have absolutely no background in programming or computer science and I don't want to use an OS that makes me write shell scripts just so I can set my monitor brightness. I also don't want to use an OS that comes with Minecraft preinstalled and sells my personal info to fund Bill Gates' sixth mansion. Ubuntu just seemed like a reasonable middle ground to me.
Will try but as I've said Firefox and Chromium both give me the same issue.
Austin Gutierrez
Fuck off with your ”hurr durr bloat” faggotry. Ubuntu being heavier than Debian or Arch or whatever isn't the cause of this, and you know it.
How is CPU usage when watching a video on your desktop? If you youtube-dl something and then watch it offline, does it spike? Good chance your browsers aren't using the GPU to decode the video. The answers talking about your GPU drivers are probably where you want to look. Also, I can't remember how, but look up how to force YT to use h264 decoding instead of webm. AFAIK, webm is still completely reliant on the CPU to decode.
>I don't want to use an OS that makes me write shell scripts just so I can set my monitor brightness. I also don't want to use an OS that comes with Minecraft preinstalled and sells my personal info to fund Bill Gates' sixth mansion wtf are you talking about
Kevin Anderson
>How is CPU usage when watching a video on your desktop it's bad even with mpv
James Robinson
then what the fuck are do doing on Jow Forums, maybe you should ask on ubuntu forum, I heard that people here are mostly nice
Elijah Torres
-f (bestvideo[ext=mp4][height
Elijah Bennett
there should be a warning in the sticky to NOT install debian-anything without testing it's live cd first
im tired of posting this
Camden Bennett
Don't worry about it op but if it bothers you, you probably should install the non-free nvidya driver.
Colton Moore
Ignore this advice, it is not good or relevant, and if you're running NVIDIA drivers will push your shit in. Only morons mention bloat, and the seemingly high 200% usage is an illusion due to hyperthreading.
Chances are you're using the nouveau driver. Advice is to install NVIDIA blob driver.
Jaxon Turner
op, any particular reason you're the older lts?
Ryan Campbell
I do think I have the noveau one, will try this too.
What do you mean? I've tried the newest 18.something release but I don't like the gnome environment as much as 16.04
Noah Wood
Think of downgrading from 18.04 to 16.04 only for Unity What do you think Jow Forumsuys?
Michael Ross
If you have win and same problem occurs, it's most likely to be hardware problem
Cooper Thompson
you can still run unity in 18.04
Luis Murphy
Yeah but they use the new unity8 I miss the old one :(
Luis Perez
It has to do with video drivers. Vdpau I think it is called?
Camden Brooks
I don't know about Chromium, but in Firefox, enter about:config and change:
Could be, but Windows 7 absolutely did have this problem. Back then, I worked around it by using Pale Meme for Youtube instead of Firefox.
Dylan Davis
Not OP but I'd rather listen to autists who don't shill for the same distro, everyone on the Ubuntu forums shills for Ubuntu just like everyone on the Arch forums shills for Arch and so on.
Mason Perry
>probably just missing gpu drivers or accelerated video libraries very doubtful, by default when you install something apt pull everything plus the kitchen sink
Camden Lewis
>just like everyone on the Arch forums shills for Arch uh no but they do have a strict _for_ distro policy you wouldn't use their forum to troubleshoot fedora now would you
Caleb Howard
he asked for mp4
Connor Diaz
>17.10 that was broken af
Leo Rivera
stop stopping my reboot
Elijah Hill
do you want to know how i know that you have never used debian-based distro for more than a few days?
Austin Ramirez
i said by default
Jace Gonzalez
neither debian nor ubuntu installs proprietary gpu drivers by default - which are necessary for accelerated video playback
Oliver Taylor
i don't have prop drivers i have acc video playback what nao
