If your Linux-using mates suddenly disappear for a day or two, we can explain why: Netflix has just revealed it's fully and formally available on the OS
As the streamer points out, Chrome's worked for in-browser playback since 2014. But not officially.
As of Tuesday, however, "users of Firefox can also enjoy Netflix on Linux."
Netflix reckons this is "a huge milestone for us and our partners, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla that helped make it possible."
HTML 5 had a lot to do with it, too, because by enabling plugin-free video playback it meant Linux users were spared the the recurring security nightmare that is Adobe Flash, which recently made a meaningful Penguin-land after ignoring Linux for years.
The reason you haven't switched to Linux is:
[editors note: the game situation isn't all that bad now, with over 3,000 games now available for Linux on Steam]
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday March 23 2017, @03:36PM (2 children)
Graphics drivers aren't the only hardware issue keeping users off Linux. The other issue is Linux's poor support for things like the camera, Bluetooth, and suspend in Bay Trail laptops such as the ASUS T100TA and X205TA. And that's after years of improvement; it used to be even worse, with not even backlight brightness, audio, WLAN, and the T100TA's detachable keyboard working.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 23 2017, @10:30PM
Everything in my Asus X551M works with Linux...although it doesn't have Bluetooth and I seldom use the camera or suspend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @04:15AM
Bay Trail is terrible on Linux and a complete anomaly. Intel basically gave up on it while usually they offer all sorts of patches for the chips to run well. There is no x86 system with worse support than Bay Trail, and it does boot and mostly function...
(long time Linux user and not so happy T100 owner here)