Yes, but it still doesn’t fix the problem. The non-free software toggle just enables a few repositories: google chrome, steam from rpmfusion, proprietary nvidia drivers. It doesn’t enable the entire rpmfusion repo which is necessary for things like HEVC codec and hardware acceleration.

EDIT: I just checked and adding the nonfree repo and installing the package can even be done entirely from the Discover GUI. It’s literally just a checkbox 🤡 God forbid the user check a box in a GUI, it’ll send them straight back to Windows 😂

God forbid you do some actual research before posting. So let’s check what’s enabled if you toggle “third party repos” in the menu after first boot: -rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver -rpmfusion-nonfree-steam -fedora-cisco-openh264 Can you point me which one of these enables HEVC codec support on your computer? Oh, yeah. It’s not here. Hell, even if it DID, for some reason, enable the required rpmfusion repo, then it STILL would not be enough. Want to know why? Because either way you need manual intervention, preferably through terminal to replace your ffmpeg and mesa with the rpmfusion’s one. Plus there are also a few packages for proprietary codecs to install. But hey, it’s just one checkbox, right? 🤡 It honestly amazes me that you recommended a distributions and then started arguing about it while having absolutely zero idea how the distribution itself works.

Literally never once had a problem playing any video in browser, from a variety of sites.

Ah, yes. The classical “works for me”. Sure, twitch videos won’t work. Twitter videos won’t work either. As will many others. But hey, you can just… not visit these websites! Honestly, I have no dog in this fight. If you want to recommend Fedora to new users, sure, go ahead. They will all just immediately go back to Windows because 90% of the websites will just throw a generic error when there is a video to play, but hey, you can just tell them to suck it up and install some third party repository. Throw a few lines they’ll have to copy-paste into the terminal. What a great first time Linux experience! Oh, but by the way, you don’t NEED multimedia playback anyway. It’s just a bunch of proprietary codecs. Just like the Nvidia drivers. With open-source nouveau you can actually see your desktop, which is absolutely enough. Who cares about gaming performance? Games are proprietary too!

just the “basics” of course

Yup. You may not like it but I think many people consider “being able to play videos in their web browser” a basic thing. With Fedora, the only thing you get working by default is youtube since it’ll just use av1.

That’s why we have flatpak!

I wouldn’t call any distro with basic codecs missing “an easy switch”.

It’s a lot better nowadays, especially compared to 5.20+.