I dont think you have an idea what the “average” user is. Is it a power user, or 66 year old grandma? The truth is someplace in between. I have a amd 570 8gb GPU. Honestly I havent noticed any difference since h264 was disabled. I play a few games, do a lot of surfing and video watching just like I did before.
Getting back to the “average” user. If a great many people (average users) noticed a difference there would be hundreds if not thousands of users posting. Instead we have a handful of niche users who cant seem to understand how to get the functionality they want back after getting multiple options to do so. That doesnt sound like a Manjaro problem, but a pebkac one.
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