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Originally Posted by SharpyWarpy
I hate this thread seems to have mutated to "why not to run as root". This is insulting considering I've not had any problems at all from running as root for 14 years now. This should prove I know enough about doing this.
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How do you know you've had no problems running as
root? Could you prove, for example, that, at no time during those 14 years, no rootkit was ever installed on your system?
But I must agree with you that this discussion has veered fairly far off topic.
(Feel free to ignore my comment above. It's your system to run as you wish.)
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So, to return to the topic, I just tried my
Firefox (also version 24), and got the same page you saw. I did notice that the page does not mention any Linux support for anything, so I thought I'd try streaming once more in
google-chrome. Guess what?
The same message popped up!
So I looked around some more, and discovered that
Netflix depends on the M$ "
Silverlight" package to work, and, if you don't have a
silverlight plugin, streaming won't work.
UNLESS you can get the
pipelight plugin working on your system.
(As you can see from the installation instructions, this may be a nontrivial task if you aren't running one of the Debian family distributions.)