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by Mikeb85 1343 days ago
> Fedora is very much NOT an all-ready-out-of-the-box experience, unless you are a FLOSS dev.

Nah it's pretty close if you have an integrated Intel or AMD system, you really don't need closed-source drivers for much except Nvidia these days. Chrome is in the non-free Fedora repositories (or can be installed easily from the website with an .rpm) and that's all most normal users need.
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hsbauauvhabzb 1342 days ago
Do they stroll restrict nonfree audio/video codecs?

I would use fedora, but I want my repository set limited to trusted sources only. Core repositories are RedHat endorsed, afaict the user managed ones are not.

I want the ability to say that packages are from maintainers that are well trusted in a court of law. I cannot do that with fedora due to this, Ubuntu seems to be my only solution and it’s rapidly becoming unusable (I don’t hate snap, but it’s broken my workflow).

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davet91 1342 days ago
> Do they still restrict nonfree audio/video codecs?

Yes they do. If you don't like to use RPMfusion you could use something like the mpv flatpak from flathub that has all codecs bundled.

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brnt 1342 days ago
Plus codecs, plus font rendering, plus cutting edge being too cutting edge sometimes.

Like I said, FLOSS devs don't rely on closed blobs so they don't have this problem.

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Mikeb85 1342 days ago
> codecs

Most websites people care about use open codecs these days (Google and Netflix use VP9 and AV1, both are open and royalty-free).

Never had an issue with font rendering. And cutting edge being too cutting edge might be an issue with some dev things but having up to date Gnome and apps is fine.

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brnt 1342 days ago
People care about fans spinning up and batteries draining. Video not being hardware accelerated is a bad ootb experience and the type of reason Ubuntu became so big.
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