Third party software is a big point in my opinion. I'll speak from my angle which seems to be a different PoV that was already talked about.
Linux Gaming is getting a huge rise in popularity. Valve has adopted a stable Debian fork for SteamOS and Ubuntu is their recommended distribution for Steam gaming. Closed Source drivers are also easier to maintain and install in Ubuntu than Fedora for example. It's all a question of: Ease of use (for first timers) and liberty to select from closed source and open source software.
Fedora has a hard stance on Closed source software, installing Steam for example, is a pain. When I switched from Windows for my work in my thesis, I opted for Fedora due being the forefront solid distribution for GNOME 3.0 (Which I quite love for being different and trying to move the paradigm forward) but I feel punished everytime I want to do something that applies to a real use case scenario of a normal end user. (There was no Workstation terminology used before, one can say that Fedora is workstation oriented and not multipurpose, but still)
I think Fedora should grab the boat on Linux Gaming as soon as they can. GoG is launching GoG Galaxy which is a Store Manager similar like Steam but with no DRM.
AMD is working hard on open sourcing their drivers. Vulkan has to be implemented in the future and Fedora should be one of the first to implement the new drivers with the new API.
NVidia is still NVidia, but they are the kings in 3D Graphics in Linux. Using them should be easier in Fedora.
Those are my two cents for now, sorry if I got off-topic or offtrack.
On Fri, 8 May 2015 at 09:05 kendell clark <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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What sort of message do you suppose that would send to the open source
community if redhat paid up? That would have all kinds of
consequences, and I'm not averse to installing rpm fusion repo
packages in order to get them. If windows/mac users are staying away
from linux based on having to install special repositories for codecs,
especially since it's very simple to find out that's what needs doing,
then they obviously don't want to use linux that badly anyway. They
have to go through quite a bit more than that to get codecs for non
patent encumbered formats in windows. I know windows supports mp3
natively, and mp4, but only some containers. Windows provides zero
support when it comes to installing codecs. Just an error dialog. Not
that linux is perfect in this area but it's trying, and that has to
count for something. I know I'm being stubborn, but to be completely
honest, catering to the "average" user starts to get rather old and
unappealing after a while, and beyond a certain point ...
Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
drago01 wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:37 AM, kendell clark
> <coffeekingms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> hi I agree with this but at the same time I disagree. I
>> completely agree that installing codecs should be easier. On the
>> other hand, I'm sympothetic to fedora's awkward position. If they
>> made installing these codecs easier or installed them by default,
>> even though the software to play them is open source, they could
>> find themselves on the bad end of an riaa or mpaa lawsuit.
>
> Nope. Neither of those entities own codec patents. And no its not
> "impossible" to ship those codes in a legal way. If fedora/red hat
> would buy patent licenses they can legally distribute those codes
> *but* those licenses would not apply to remixes so anyone else
> basing his/her distro on fedora would have to either remove them or
> get a patent license. MP3 will expire soon anyway. So we'd only
> need AAC/H264 to be able to handle most videos out there.
>
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