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Fedora should not be recommended anymore for personal desktop use for the simple reason that they removed hardware accelerated video decoding and encoding suppo

• jacooper 4y ago
  You can enable it manually, like almost every other non-beginner friendly fedora quirk https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/proprietary-video-codecs-are-no-longer-hardware-accelerated-by-default-on-amd-gpus-on-fedora-37/28965#solution-4 https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/proprietary-video-codecs-are...
  • Sunspark 4y ago
    The nice thing about Windows and MacOS is that users aren't expected to jump through hoops to restore functionality.
    • jacooper 4y ago
      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.
• Delk 4y ago
  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.