• Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    You gonna be very upset when you realize that Fedora ditched support for some essential codecs for hardware acceleration on Intel Integrated Graphics and any forum won’t be able to help you properly. Bullshit experience. Arch is much better (btw)

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      2 years ago

      Why do we gotta be like this?

      Fedora is fine, it’s the work of seconds to add non-free codecs.

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        2 years ago

        They’re probably talking about Fedora dropping the h.264, h.265 and VC1 VA-API support back in 2022 for legal reasons due to patents:

        https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API

        It’s largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.

        Don’t get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren’t comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.