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Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor $65.99 She'll use it for Netflix, online eight year old girl gaming, grade 3 school web based activities, and my wife for email and online shopping. (I've already had lots of input from others on this). – About Silverlight.I plan the following build with my daughter. The new update from Chrome, which enables you to watch Netflix, also mentions that they blocked this method from being effective anyway.Īnyone that’s spent hours creating workarounds on a Linux distro understands how frustrating it can be when a company blocks your method. The previous method of watching Netflix was to install Wine, which is virtualization software that enables people to run Windows programs in the Linux environment. You can watch it on any Linux distro! Chrome is the one that updated their browser so that it could stream Netflix on Linux operating systems.

This isn’t limited to the Ubuntu version of Linux either. Thisīut thanks to engineers at both Netflix and Ubuntu, you are now able to watch Netflix via the Chrome Browser. In 2014, Netflix started switching over from Silverlight to a version of HTML5 that they use. What is Silverlight? In a nutshell, Silverlight is a plug-in owned by Microsoft that is able to improve the quality of streaming video. For the longest time you were not able to watch Netflix on Linux computers and laptops because of a proprietary technology that Netflix uses called Silverlight.
