Performance issues due to hardware acceleration in Desktop 2.0.3 and Web UI 22.0.x

[muchachagrande]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In linux version 2.0.3 (zip) I'm having a problem that didn't happen before. When I execute Talk Desktop I see random screen glitches until the whole PC hangs and need a hard reset.
This is the same problem that recently started to happen with chromium browser and its derivatives (brave, chrome, etc...)
The way to solve it is turning off hardware acceleration in the browser. In chromium, this can be done from command line and from the menu. But it has to be done from command line because ones executed with hardware acceleration, you can't reach the menu to turn it off because it hangs very quickly.
As you are using a chrome sandbox and because the graphics glitches are the same as with chromium, I believe that that I'm being hit with by problem.

Describe the solution you'd like
I wonder if you can add some way to turn off hardware acceleration. It has to be done in command line or in some configuration file to turn it off before execution.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Turning off hardware acceleration by default and expose the option to turn it on with the appropriate warning.

Additional context
I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.
From what I've found, this problem is happening only on linux.

[nickvergessen]

Since it's also affecting chromium directly, I'll move it over

[nickvergessen]

The problem is a bit broader. We didn't explicitly enable anything with 2.0.3 or a recent update.
It could of course be that Chrome did something, but it more looks like there is a bug somewhere that simply starts eating resources.