> But please, enlighten me how an average modern desktop computer user could install a free media codec pack on a user friendly distro without opening the termi

> But please, enlighten me how an average modern desktop computer user could install a free media codec pack on a user friendly distro without opening the terminal? Do you need to? I thought Ubuntu shipped codecs by default these days. But if it's an extra package, I was pretty sure Ubuntu shipped a GUI frontend to package management these days, and if that's not good enough you can use it to install synaptic and do whatever you need[0][1]. > but holy shit am repeatedly stunned by how average-user hostile linux is. They just refuse to stop speaking Klingon except for the most absolute basic things. To marginally overextend the metaphor, you speak English (which is a terrible mess of a language[2], but it's familiar to you), immigrated into the Klingon Empire, appear to understand that Klingon is actually a more efficient language, and still want the Klingons to stop speaking Klingon and convert to using English, because you want it to be easier to flee the Terran Empire[3] if they did even though most people won't do so regardless. [0] https://itsfoss.com/synaptic-package-manager/ https://itsfoss.com/synaptic-package-manager/ [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-install-synaptic.html.en https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-install... [2] I say this as a native speaker: English is a horrible mess of a language, mostly because it started as 3 other languages in a trench coat and never stopped tacking on bits and pieces of other languages. [3] Okay, the metaphor is way more than marginally overextended, but it's not like people would flee the Federation...