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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Good choice! A tip: many media apps are better being installed as a Flatpak and not from the Fedora rpms. Many Fedora packages, such as VLC, are missing specific codecs and the Flatpak versions can generally play everything.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a little correction: its not VLC that misses the codec, but the distribution. most distros dont risk distributing hardware acceleration drivers for h264 and a few others because of patents

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

To be clear, flatpaks from flathub. Fedora has their own flatpak repository, and those are not the flatpaks you are looking for.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Be aware though, that flatpaks can fill up your drive very quickly