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

submitted 6 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Be aware though, that flatpaks can fill up your drive very quickly. Using something like Warehouse and Flatsweep every now and then to clean things up can free up a shocking amount of space.