"Pancho"  wrote

| I'm a bit confused by the other responses. I tested Raspbian desktop on
| my Pi4 4GB just over a year ago and it wasn't utilising hardware
| graphics acceleration in the Chrome ("Chromium"?) browser. HD video,
| fullscreen, youtube, was unwatchable in Chrome. None of the other
| browsers seemed better, I think Firefox was "experimental".
|

  I don't know from hardware acceleration, but I got
a Pi4 kit and it worked great from the start. I don't
use Chrome, except the custom version for streaming
movies. Youtube works fine on FF. (Though it's easier
to use youtube-dl for large videos, put the video on
a stick, and walk it over to the Pi.)

  What about your network setup? I think all Pi4s
have an ethernet input, which is how I'm using it.
Wifi is for the birds if you can reasonably easily get
a cable to the Pi. In my case I've run cables around
the house because I have an open cellar ceiling and
lots of pipe chases/heat vents. For some people it's
not so easy.

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