I've been using Flash on both 64-bit and 32-bit variants of Debian for years now, with little problem. My only real complaint with Flash on Linux has been the inconsistent updates for the 64-bit plugin.
People who say "Flash works poorly on Linux" are either trolling, too newb to configure their browsers, or free software zealots who won't be satisfied until Adobe open sources everything they've ever made.
That's weird, leaving Firefox 4 open on Arch Linux with, for example, a YouTube page open for a few hours breaks the player and requires the flash process to be killed and restarted before it works again. IME, it's not a stable piece of software on Linux.
I watched this video using debian stable with flash manually installed from the official source. It played the first time, and broke the second time when I tried to show someone else. I find flash on linux "generally works", but frequently breaks in ways that doesn't happen when I use it on windows.
As for "too newb to configure their browsers", why should you have to delve into browser settings just to make something like that work? What you're saying here is an explicit "this won't work unless you fiddle with your settings" - which is basically the same as "this is not natively supported", ie: it doesn't "just work".
I've been using Flash on both 64-bit and 32-bit variants of Debian for years now, with little problem. My only real complaint with Flash on Linux has been the inconsistent updates for the 64-bit plugin.
People who say "Flash works poorly on Linux" are either trolling, too newb to configure their browsers, or free software zealots who won't be satisfied until Adobe open sources everything they've ever made.