Huh? That has gotten very easy with the RPMfusion repos for those drivers especially being enabled by default so you can just install them from the main software center. But this isn’t exactly new.
i recently tried fedora kde spin and the drivers definitely weren’t in the software center. and i don’t like gnome so i didn’t try the official one, but i did suspect that the official one could be more user friendly. good to know.
Codecs are a legal grey area that many distros are choosing to include out of convenience since there has not been a problem before. Since Fedora is associated with Red Hat/IBM which have a lot of money and are bigger targets for lawsuits, they are choosing to play it safe by not officially supporting many codecs. It is the same with openSUSE.
Does that mean it will be simpler to enable multimedia codecs? That is always a bit of a pain point on a new Fedora install, in my experience.
another pain point is installing nvidia drivers. the first time i spent like 2 hours searching the interwebs for a working instruction for my gpu…
Huh? That has gotten very easy with the RPMfusion repos for those drivers especially being enabled by default so you can just install them from the main software center. But this isn’t exactly new.
i recently tried fedora kde spin and the drivers definitely weren’t in the software center. and i don’t like gnome so i didn’t try the official one, but i did suspect that the official one could be more user friendly. good to know.
They sadly can’t do that for legal reasons.
Will we see a change with this at least with H.264 since its patents are expiring? I hope so.
didn’t realize that was a legal issue. why can other distros automate it when installing the os?
Codecs are a legal grey area that many distros are choosing to include out of convenience since there has not been a problem before. Since Fedora is associated with Red Hat/IBM which have a lot of money and are bigger targets for lawsuits, they are choosing to play it safe by not officially supporting many codecs. It is the same with openSUSE.
They either have some licensing agreement with the IP holders of these codecs or do it on legally questionable grounds.