[antics9]

Why would one want NewPipe on desktop when there's https://freetubeapp.io/

[ravenstine]

Perhaps because one is accustomed to the NewPipe experience and would prefer consistency across devices?

Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

[squarefoot]

> Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.

I've used it for several months now and am very happy with it. I'ts a Electron app, however, so don't expect it to be small; I hope they will consider rebuilding it using Tauri, which would reduce its size drastically.

[prmoustache]

I don't know, it makes sense that UI between desktop and mobile would be different. I use Freetube on desktop and newpipe on mobile.

Having said that, newpipe is not only a youtube client but also a soundcloud, bandcamp and a few others too.

[ugjka]

I tried it, it didn't feel like what you get on android and had ui glitches

[anthk]

Parabolic it's far better for desktop users.

[Timber-6539]

Freetube is terribly unoptimized. Even though it supports hw video playback, I decided to skip it as it had too much CPU overhead.

[3np]

You know you could drop a recommendation without being so damn submissive of OP. Let a thousand alternative clients bloom.

[antics9]

It was an actual question for the community as these kind of questions usually generate perspectives and alternatives. There’s no need to read anything else into it.

[mixmastamyk]

Doesn’t work well on Wayland unfortunately. Don’t know if this one does but worth a shot.

[EffrafaxOfWug]

I have used FreeTube on wayland now for a long time without any issues. Electron still uses x11 as the default on wayland so you need to enable the wayland mode manually. You can easily do that by setting the ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable.

[BadHumans]

I use Freetube on Wayland with 0 issues.

[yownie]

no "fast-foward through silence" feature

[yownie]

in one phrase "skip silences" feature!