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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)
Do you have a link that talks about this? What is missing?
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.
Flathub even has hardware decoding with the drivers they distribute. However, Flatpak applications need to specifically opt in to
ffmpeg-fullrather than the normalffmpegpackage, which has support for patent-encumbered codecs.Fedora Flatpaks, on the other hand, have no such codec support.
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I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!