Lack of hardware decoding with generic Mesa | Season 2 Ep.5

It uses generic Mesa, but then it doesn't take advantage of hardware decoding or anything. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. I get it, I get it, I get it. Okay, wow. How... But it's Intel. How is that? I know. I know. It's nuts. I was like, what? Because I had to go through this whole long spiel to get the Intel Arc drivers installed even on Ubuntu right now. And, I mean, it's working now. But, man, it pissed me off. I'm not going to lie. I don't think I've ever been this mad at a graphics card in my life. That blows my mind away. That would be like AMD not being available on Debian or something like that. You know what I mean? Right, right. Imagine, for reference, so you guys understand out there, imagine if your GPU just didn't work on Arch Linux and you're an Arch fanboy. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS2kgfUgyJQ