Since Mint doesn't install as much needless junk as Windows and don't slow down over the course of the day, if I replace XP with Mint on my desktop will I be able to watch online videos faster?
My graphics card is eight years old; to give you a sense of its speed, watching youtube videos at 240p is fine but at 360p the video becomes very choppy and sometimes it makes my computer freeze. Conversely, my laptop has Mint instead of XP with a faster video card, but the exact same speed of RAM and CPU, and watching 360p videos is fine.
I don't want to buy a new video card. Will installing Linux on my desktop just do the trick?
Will installing Mint on my computer make watching online vi
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Re: Will installing Mint on my computer make watching online
In short No
You will generally get better video playback in windows because the driver support is better. Though I never have trouble in Mint or Linux generally, but my hardware is a little newer than yours.
You will generally get better video playback in windows because the driver support is better. Though I never have trouble in Mint or Linux generally, but my hardware is a little newer than yours.
Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon
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ShAkKa43
Re: Will installing Mint on my computer make watching online
Flash videos usually perform worse on Linux than they do on Windows so i doubt you will get any improvements by switching to Mint.If you do decide to install Mint you can try installing a flashless App called Minitube which will let you watch Youtube videos on pretty high quality without using much processing power.