Just a side note that at least openSUSE has community-backed solutions for distributing the codecs anyway (long live OBS). This is not optimal long term solutio

Just a side note that at least openSUSE has community-backed solutions for distributing the codecs anyway (long live OBS). This is not optimal long term solution but it works(tm) for at least AMD. (Background: I'm daily driving openSUSE tumbleweed and had to deal with it fairly recently)