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Why would one want NewPipe on desktop when there's https://freetubeapp.io/

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Perhaps because one is accustomed to the NewPipe experience and would prefer consistency across devices?

Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

I tried it, it didn't feel like what you get on android and had ui glitches

I have been enjoying the new version that just came out yesterday, they implemented a new video player and IMHO the user experience is much improved, if the UI glitches you mentioned were related to the player, maybe you could give it a try.

Parabolic it's far better for desktop users.

That seems to be a tools for downloading youtube videos, but the others presented here were for browsing it and watching videos as well

I don't know, it makes sense that UI between desktop and mobile would be different. I use Freetube on desktop and newpipe on mobile.

Having said that, newpipe is not only a youtube client but also a soundcloud, bandcamp and a few others too.

> Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

I've used it for several months now and am very happy with it. I'ts a Electron app, however, so don't expect it to be small; I hope they will consider rebuilding it using Tauri, which would reduce its size drastically.

I know a lot of people hate on the recommendations homepage on YouTube, but I discover a lot of content I like watching there. However, I can't watch all of it and what to save what I see there and otherwise find and search for in a playlist, but the watch later playlist is not user friendly. Does Freetube improve playlist management too? That would be a big plus.

I never used the playlist on FreeTube, but just gave it a look and the use seems straightforward to me. It probably depends a lot on user needs, anyway operations look lightning fast compared to the "original".

Freetube is terribly unoptimized. Even though it supports hw video playback, I decided to skip it as it had too much CPU overhead.

You know you could drop a recommendation without being so damn submissive of OP. Let a thousand alternative clients bloom.

It was an actual question for the community as these kind of questions usually generate perspectives and alternatives. There’s no need to read anything else into it.

Doesn’t work well on Wayland unfortunately. Don’t know if this one does but worth a shot.

I have used FreeTube on wayland now for a long time without any issues. Electron still uses x11 as the default on wayland so you need to enable the wayland mode manually. You can easily do that by setting the ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable.

Thanks, that fixed the resolution issue! I also had to give it access to the dbus system socket and wayland for it to work. Wasn't sure how to do that but the flatseal app made it easy.

I use Freetube on Wayland with 0 issues.

Same here.

They fixed a few bugs already I think. But it still looks like crap (lower resolution?) on my tablet and I have to force the onscreen keyboard on manually (normally comes on by itself).

Oddly enough the video itself looks fine when playing, but not the browser interface.

no "fast-foward through silence" feature

in one phrase "skip silences" feature!

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