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I daily drive Fedora and if I had to guess, it's because you need to manually enable non free software repos and features. If you don't know what to look for, you can easily get frustrated by things like poor hardware acceleration in browsers (due to some codecs being nonfree and hence not available OOTB) and worse driver availability. IIRC you need to manually add the repos, you can't just toggle something in settings.
Other distros tend to bundle these things (or give you a direct toggle).
In my experience, as part of the install process you have the ability to click a big obvious button that says 'enable third party repositories' (which includes nonfree stuff)
Does that automatically setup RPMFusion? That's where most of the things I was talking about live. Last time I ran the installer was a few years ago (plus I use the KDE spin which maybe is a bit different) and I don't remembet an option to enable RPMFusion, so maybe it's changed.
Yes, rpmfusion is enabled if you select 'enable third party repositories' for proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
Oh got it, thanks for the correction! In that case it shouldn't be a blocker.
I think having an up to date kernel like Fedora does helps with peripheral usability while not updating packages so frequently as to run into crazy bugs. I guess that's why some gaming distros base themselves on Fedora.
Yep. This is a great answer, and the cure for it is to search “fedora after install” to get a list of the most common things you should install update and tweak.