Usability/Stability as a desktop replacement in Ubuntu

dewet

Yes

But not for any 3D or Video related stuff at the moment.

ARM said they will release new Mali r5p1 driver before end of March together with X11 driver support based on 3.14 kernel.

Then above will also work and Firefly can then be used as a PC Ubuntu replacement.

dewet

Thanks for the input guys.

When you say for the 3D or video related stuff do you mean 3D games or watching videos online either flash through a browser or via XBMC?

Would I be able to watch the occasional youtube video or watch something on vlc?

Thanks

You will only be able to watch Youtube or VLC videos in a small window, not fullscreen until the drivers are ready.

Also XBMC won't work until the drivers are released.

XBMC and VLC can then use GLES acceleration from the GPU to playback videos.

The VPU drivers from 3.14 ChromeOS will then probably also get ported to Firefly but not certain.