I feel like I’ve been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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    10 months ago

    Weird. I’ve been trying to find a distro I’m happy with and was setting Fedora KDE up today. Ran though my bookmarks and found no videos played on Twitch. Had to install codecs to get it to work. I hadn’t seen this in previous distros. Is this specific to Fedora? Other than this hiccup I’ve enjoyed it so far.

    I liked how straight forward Linux Mint is but prefer KDE Plasma. Plus Mint seems quite far behind in versions.

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      10 months ago

      In their gnome version, during the setup process (first boot, not install), they would prompt for third-party repo and codec (Enabled by default, IIRC).

      I think you might have unchecked that? or KDE not offering such experience?


      EDIT: NVM, I just checked, and I have never installed the codecs… LOL.

      Fedora is notorious for avoiding shipping proprietary software with their distro even at the cost of new users.

      I think this might stems from the fact that fedora used to be a distro aimed for advanced users. It is slowly getting better at being new user friendly.

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          110 months ago

          Yeah, I was wondering why I have desync issues couple days ago watching videos with my wife.

          Modern YouTube videos are generally fine, but many other site has poor support for popular codecs.