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i found fedora hard to work with because of its hard "no non-open source" stand. e.g. i had trouble playing a x265 HEVC file with vlc where as i never encountered anything like that on any other distro and solving this was not trivial.
i am on kubuntu rn but if i were to switch i'd go back to cachyos with KDE.
I had issues with this and ended up just switching to the flatpak for VLC.
RPM Fusion exists to address some of these points. It's a set of RPM repos based in Europe that provide software that the Fedora Project itself will not.
https://rpmfusion.org/
if you are aware of it and its solutions it surely is a non-issue but for me as a linux noob it was reason enough against fedora. getting into linux is already complicated enough without extra obstacles.
you're right, it was also one of the reasons I avoided fedora originally. Company of Heroes for example would work OOTB in any other distro, but on fedora it would crash as soon the game opened - unless I skipped the intro movies with the steam command. My guess it was the codecs, even though I supposedly had installed them.
But just you know, if someday you give it another shot, you can use this link: https://nattdf.streamlit.app/
It's basically a script builder that helps you get fedora up and running with everything you want. Codecs was never an issue since I used it
Saving that link, looks super handy. Thanks for sharing it!
It's not about proprietary stuff, it's about US software patents. The codecs are open source, but you can't use them under US law because of patents. Fedora cares about that because they are closely tied to Red Hat which is an American company. Community distros without any corporate affiliation like Arch or Debian generally don't give a shit since there is no commercial entity to sue. IDK how Canonical circumvents that though.