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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • Multimedia/ h264 codecs ??
  • KDE/GSconnect
  • Something like Arch's downgrade package + an archive of package versions
  • Hardware video acceleration support is sorely lacking
  • Picture-in-picture in Gnome's Wayland (bug that a gnome-shell extension fixes!)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Multimedia codecs have a different license agreement than the OS so they aren't bundled by default for a reason

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't care about the licenses. If I click on my media and it refuses to play because some codec is omitted by default, am annoyed nonetheless.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most distros have a checkbox during the installer that will add non-free components. It's a separate EULA you need to agree to so they can't do it for you.

    You may not care, but the distro provider's legal team absolutely cares about not getting sued for automatically bundling components with an incompatible license agreement

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The non-free components I've seen on installers are usually for Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Not codecs.

    Sounds like legal panic if you ask me. There's been no precedent for litigation on use of licensed codecs which most have been using either way prior in their builds and packages.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    More annoyed when the distro doesn't even bother to document how to properly install the "missing" codecs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't mistake this as condescension, but doesn't VLC solve all of that?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nope. VLC uses system libraries, unless you install through something that ships its own dependencies like flatpak.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Oh yeah! That downgrade option sounds cool. The only time I kinda regretted being on Manjaro. VirtualBox 7 still doesn't have functional graphics. I tried downgrade, but that didn't work. Maybe I should have tried deleting the VirtualBox config 🤔

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not sure why KDE/GSconnect would need to be preinstalled tbh. But I agree with the others

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    because kde connect is so well made and everyone with a smartphone should use it

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't really want my smartphone notifs on my PC. It should be an optional addition, like it currently is.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quality of life improvement. Plus it's normal for operating systems to have some kind of smartphone/smart device integration now.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plus it's normal for operating systems to have some kind of smartphone/smart device integration now.

    And I don't approve of this transition. It's unnecessary bloat. Just install it if you want it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only a Gentoo user can make that claim. Hope you are one.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's not true lol

    I am an arch user though

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Guess what if you installed a DE, other than the tiling ones, it came with bloat.

    You probably also use systemd, another infamous piece of bloatware. /s

    Gentoo has less bloat than Arch if really want to get into nitpicking.

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