Raspberry Pi4 and Ubuntu Mate Desktopify: The best OS yet. See why

Ubuntu Mate Desktopify edition on a Raspberry PI 4 8GB. We are going to first install Ubuntu Mate, Desktopify version, perform some desktop tweaks, enable video acceleration, install VLC and VLC Screen Capture and finally fix the screen resolution issue on Ubuntu.

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Here are all the commands you will need:

cd ./desktopify

sudo ./desktopify --de ubuntu-mate

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install libgles2-mesa libgles2-mesa-dev xorg-dev

sudo nano /boot/firmware/usercfg.txt

dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d max_framebuffers=2 gpu_mem=128 hdmi_enable_4kp60=1 disable_overscan=1

** Reboot and recheck:

cat /proc/device-tree/soc/firmwarekms@7e600000/status

cat /proc/device-tree/v3dbus/v3d@7ec04000/status

*** If the 2 commands above comes with OK. You should be good.

** To Enable hardware acceleration in Firefox, open Firefox and type this in the search bar:

about:config

** look for: layers.acceleration.force-enabled

• Change it from false to True

** Restart Firefox. Type this in search:

about:support

** Go down to Graphics and look for OpenGL

• Now let's downlaod VLC and enable Hardware acceperation in it:

sudo apt install vlc

Watch the video for the instruction to enable VLC hardware acceleration.

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