[solved] Linux mint and flash

[Mangar]

I was talking on another forum about switching to LM17. So other people chimed in.

"Doesn't matter which distro you are using, Adobe stopped supporting Flash on nix at Flash v11. Anything newer is a 3rd party version, and they're not great."

also

Often not through choice--Flash is still the best way to play Youtube videos, for instance, but the Linux version of it is so horribly inefficient that I can't play them at better than 480p on my old laptop. When it was running XP I could do 720p, no problem!
- other peoples comments outside from here

Is this complete true, or do other LM17 people have a different take? new info?

[tdockery97]

my old laptop

Sounds more likely your problem lies there. While using Firefox on my laptop I have no problem at all watching YouTube videos at 1080p.

[Mangar]

Thank you, I am on another forum and seems some are out there to discourage others to go to a Linux OS. You know the DIE hard gamers looking Game developers. When the Dev's says something, you get a MIB locker filled will "All hail the Answer" LOL. I appreciate the input. I don't know squat about the Linux historical timeline (product shortfalls over the years and misconceptions) . Only what I do today. thanks for the help.

[1.618]

Absolutely no issues here, all vids play fine for me in mint17

[catfish12]

no problems here playing flash HD 1080p linux mint 17 xfce firefox 32.0

[Fuzzy Penquin]

No problems for me either. I can watch YouTube at full HD 1080p, and play online Flash games just fine. Not a single hiccup. The only computers that I have that can't play YouTube videos at all, are my OLD and ANCIENT laptops (single-core Pentium 2 and 3). Their hardware is just too weak to play modern videos and they surf the web very slowly. As web & video technology have progressed, I guess they've become more taxing on old computers. So I'd hazard a guess that if your laptop is too old, then that's your problem. The *hardware* isn't good enough anymore.

[Mangar]

Thanks everyone with the reply of Positive feedback claims, I also found http://www.wikihow.com/Upgrade-Adobe-Fl ... Linux-Mint
for flash player 11 it is only 18 weeks old. Do you see any issue with doing this in mint, it seems like Ubuntu was used but titles Mint.

So far I am thrilled with mint, alittle hang up locating, testing , installing graphics drivers. But so far the groups has been great helping me help myself.
Once I help myself I hope to help others.

I must say it is hard getting the word to others when I say Mint they say pooiee on Ubuntu memories of 2.5 years ago. *sighs* then I have to leave links for others who can get past the ring leaders in gaming forums. Blah !!!!!

Anyway I am slowly chipping away at the perception of older Linux version sort comings.

Wonder if the admin would make a thread call misconceptions of mint, people could post like I did about flash and the gurus or dev people could focus on killing those misconceptions that linger about old OLD small talk

[nomko]

I think we oversee the following thing here, you can't update Adobe Flash any longer since Adobe dropped their support for Linux a while ago (2013). It was announced worldwide amongst almost every Linux forum and website. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Trying updating Flash won't do much...

Some infi:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/25 ... flash.html
Official note Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012 ... linux.html

[Mangar]

I think we oversee the following thing here, you can't update Adobe Flash any longer since Adobe dropped their support for Linux a while ago (2013). It was announced worldwide amongst almost every Linux forum and website. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Trying updating Flash won't do much...

Some infi:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/25 ... flash.html
Official note Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012 ... linux.html

Just some looking around
yet consider
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172431- ... -playback/
HTML5 VS the end of adobe Flash
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396094,00.asp

[Mangar]

I think we oversee the following thing here, you can't update Adobe Flash any longer since Adobe dropped their support for Linux a while ago (2013). It was announced worldwide amongst almost every Linux forum and website. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Trying updating Flash won't do much...

Some infi:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/25 ... flash.html
Official note Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012 ... linux.html

Thanks nomko, I guess they want to monopolize the corner, but they might put themselves in a corner also. I was looking into how much that forces people, not just in the US, to buy new rigs and hardware, but many people world wide have taken a hit who just can not drop money like that. IMHO it seemed when Google started doing its own thing (with chrome and OS), Microsoft upgraded its browser which Adobe then upgrade to follow suite. Seemed it rolled over a few time in a short period of time (alot of mass followers kept up with it for a little while). That really put a wedge between NEW rigs and later OS, pitted against a large chunk of users that seem to be getting by without trying to keep up following their lead.

Makes me wonder if they are testing how hard they can push the consensus to go out and spend money to follow them. [solved] >>Oh well only time will tell or innovation makes a new path option to circumvent the blinders.