Post #3388286
2026-06-24 09:39 UTC
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.
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@frosty@pawb.social 2026-06-24 09:51
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. rpmfusion.org
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@deadcream@sopuli.xyz 2026-06-24 13:02
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.
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@sneaky@r.nf 2026-06-24 17:29
I had issues with this and ended up just switching to the flatpak for VLC.