I've done that. Doesn't work for most of the Youtube videos I want to view.
BTW why the downvoting? I'm simply stating the facts here: most Youtube and Flash videos can't be viewed on Linux, period. It's been true for several years now and sucks bananas.
If you've got a Linux distribution that allows display of more than 80% of Youtube and Flash videos then please tell me what it is. Otherwise don't be buttsore and downvote me simply because I'm stating an unpleasant truth.
Pick any distribution, any browser, and even pick which flash implementation to install (including Adobe's). Flash has worked fine on Linux for about a decade.
Haven't tried Opera, but Ubuntu with Firefox and Chrome work perfectly well with flash for me. It's not a general issue that affects everyone; it's a problem with your setup.
I haven't tried playing 80% of videos on YouTube (ain't nobody got time for that), but of the videos I've tried to watch, all of them have played just fine (with a few buffering/[quality settings refusing to stick] issues which I've experienced equally on Windows boxen). Videos on other sites seem to work most of the time, especially if I temporarily disable AdBlockPlus.
BTW why the downvoting? I'm simply stating the facts here: most Youtube and Flash videos can't be viewed on Linux, period. It's been true for several years now and sucks bananas.
If you've got a Linux distribution that allows display of more than 80% of Youtube and Flash videos then please tell me what it is. Otherwise don't be buttsore and downvote me simply because I'm stating an unpleasant truth.