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There have been leaps and bounds of progress in the last few years. Youtube hardware acceleration works perfectly in chrome/firefox now (assuming you have working video drivers).

As far as I know netflix still limits you to 720p under most browsers (although their support page shows that opera of all things supports 1080p)

I watch Freetube and Netflix on my Starlite tablet and it works well. Works on the laptop too, though I don't watch there.

libva is usually installed these days but you can install it manually. For Netflix you'll need to install widevine.

What issue did you have? This should work if you follow the happy paths on video and browser hardware acceleration guides for your distro.

At least for Intel and AMD graphics, the Arch wiki's guide should work.

Current gen intel and amd gpus support vaapi out of the box on fedora in both chromium and firefox. DRM nonsense is orthogonal and unrelated to linux.

Who knows, it's 2026 now.

Yeah, and still it isn't the Year of Linux Desktop for 90% of the world, unless it is hosted on a VM.

Being generous with Steam hardware survey numbers for GNU/Linux.