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It's a nice OS, but my biggest pet peeve is that it doesn't come with h264 repos installed [0]. One has to first add them otherwise one won't be able to play mo

It's a nice OS, but my biggest pet peeve is that it doesn't come with h264 repos installed [0]. One has to first add them otherwise one won't be able to play most videos or music in your browser. Some configuration is therefore necessary and I can't just install it in 15 minutes then hand it over to the owner. It's a pity because the fastest way to scare the average user away from Linux is to force them to open a shell in order to have a working setup. Hopefully that's something that'll change. As a technical user, I enjoy it though. YaST is great for configuring many parts of the system, the documentation is great and it's stable. If Nix ever gets usable, I might give it a shot, but it's OpenSuse all the way for now [1] [0]: https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww

COGlory 5y ago
You can technically add the repos through Yast, but I agree, it's a pain.
rubyist5eva 5y ago
Doesn’t Ubuntu require you to manually install restricted extras, and fedora needs rpm fusion. I don’t see how this is more advantageous than just enabling packman in yast and switching the packages over with a single click.
- usr1106 5y ago
  I think no longer. I installed a new Xubuntu a bit more than a year ago and so far all videos from the Web and they few DVDs I have watched did just work. I was a bit surprised by that.
usr1106 5y ago
Yes, you need a repo from Packman. Less than 15 minutes to set that up if you know what you are doing. Yeah, if you don't install a new machine frequently you will have forgotten the details until the next time. And some guides on the net are not as good as others. Haven't done it myself for many months, so once again I don't remember it in detail. I guess the reason is that their corporate lawyers tell them that they must not do it. There might be patent issues buried in that code.

COGlory 5y ago

You can technically add the repos through Yast, but I agree, it's a pain.

rubyist5eva 5y ago

Doesn’t Ubuntu require you to manually install restricted extras, and fedora needs rpm fusion. I don’t see how this is more advantageous than just enabling packman in yast and switching the packages over with a single click.

usr1106 5y ago
I think no longer. I installed a new Xubuntu a bit more than a year ago and so far all videos from the Web and they few DVDs I have watched did just work. I was a bit surprised by that.

usr1106 5y ago

Yes, you need a repo from Packman. Less than 15 minutes to set that up if you know what you are doing. Yeah, if you don't install a new machine frequently you will have forgotten the details until the next time. And some guides on the net are not as good as others. Haven't done it myself for many months, so once again I don't remember it in detail. I guess the reason is that their corporate lawyers tell them that they must not do it. There might be patent issues buried in that code.