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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? by Sunspark on Sunday January 29, 2023 @02:34PM (#34571802)
Fedora should not be recommended anymore for personal desktop use for the simple reason that they removed hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding support. Must all run on the CPU now.
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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? by jacooper on Sunday January 29, 2023 @02:59PM (#34572039)
You can enable it manually, like almost every other non-beginner friendly fedora quirk

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/proprietary-video-codecs-are...

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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? by Sunspark on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:59AM (#34576292)
The nice thing about Windows and MacOS is that users aren't expected to jump through hoops to restore functionality.
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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? by jacooper on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:26AM (#34579941)
I mean its not limited to macOS, you can just use Ubuntu or any other more user friendly distro.

Fedora isn't really noon friendly, and probably will never be, because of copyright limitations compared to the UK where Canonical is based.

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Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? by Delk on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:00PM (#34572695)
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Fedora disabled hardware video decoding support in their Mesa builds, which mostly affects AMD GPUs. Intel has hardware video decoding in the GPU driver (or in the firmware or wherever), and it's not dependent on Mesa having it enabled. NVidia of course does its own thing.

It's still a shame for AMD GPU users, of course, although understandable from the point of view of legal risk management.

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