Disney + is called to be the new streaming giant because it has behind the world's largest producer of audiovisual content, however, GNU / Linux users could not use it because the DRM introduced in the Chrome and Firefox versions for The Open Source system did not meet the required security level.
The issue was denounced at the time by Hans de Goede, an employee of Red Hat and one of the engineers most involved in the development of Fedora. De Goede could know this first hand because he is from the Netherlands, a country that had the privilege of being with the United States and Canada the first to officially use Disney +. After learning about this problem with the DRMs available for GNU / Linux, he decided to contact Disney to see if he could find a solution.
While the community around the GNU / Linux desktop is relatively small, it has the ability to be very active. This adds to the fact that other streaming content services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have not put any impediment to their use from the Open Source system beyond the DRM provided by Chrome and Firefox (Widevine), so after Hans' contacts Goede (and possibly other people linked to the community) and user complaints, Disney seems to have rectified (or Widevine has been updated) and now you can access the contents of Disney + from GNU / Linux, or so they count on OMG Ubuntu after collecting posts from various Twitter users.
Obviously, to use Prime Video, Netflix and presumably Disney + in GNU / Linux requires a recent version of Google Chrome or Firefox that supports Widevine, the DRM that has opened the door to the use of these services from the browser and independently of the operating system. Although the DRM in HTML5 was at the time very criticized, it has been shown as a good way to unlink the streaming services of the native applications and reduce their dependence on the operating system, making it now not necessary to have a dual boot with Windows to using them.
If this information is confirmed, when Disney + arrives in Spain, GNU / Linux users would not have to have any problem to enjoy The Mandalorian.
