By the way, it would be nice if someone compiled these minor (in terms of implementation) optimizations into a single quality-of-life post/thread so people won’t have to browse through and open a hundred different posts further down the road. Ideally these posts would be organized into sections, give credit, have links, and condense things so they’re as compact as possible
Video playback
Reduce VLC’s CPU usage - Under ‘Video’ in Preferences (Ctrl + P), change ‘output’ to ‘X11 video output (XCB)’ @solene
My word. Wish I knew about this years ago. I leave several videos up paused, and they eat up like 10% CPU each doing nothing. This dropped it down a lot.