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  • alt@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.world•My experience with Linux Day 1English
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    2 years ago

    Couple of things that might have tampered your experience:

    • Nvidia. This should come to no one as a surprise, but unfortunately the experience still leaves a lot to desire. Unfortunately, even changing to Nobara didn’t help you out there. If you’re still dead set on Fedora, I would recommend the Nvidia Images of uBlue which are also mentioned in the Troubleshooting part of Fedora’s documentation.
    • Using Fedora as a new user. Before people start shitting on me, I’m a proud Fedora user and it has been my daily driver ever since the day I’ve switched to Linux. But -like Debian- Fedora’s strict stance on FOSS requires one to take additional steps during initial setup/configuration after installation. The aforementioned images from uBlue (once again) help to solve that.
    • I assume you just did the thing on Windows and straight up downloaded VLC off the internet and thought it would work out like that. I wonder if you do the same on your Android/iOS/macOS device. If I’m mistaken, then please feel free to skip the rest of this paragraph. If not, then please consider to read on. So, while it is possible to download software directly off the internet through your browser, this is in 99% of the cases simply inferior to grabbing your software the intended way; through the installed package manager(s). On Fedora, that would have been dnf and/or flatpak. As VLC isn’t even found in Fedora’s repos (though it is found in RPM Fusion’s repos), your best bet would have been installing it as a flatpak. Which in this case, could have been through the built-in ‘storefront’ with a GUI (it’s called Software on GNOME) or through the terminal with the flatpak install org.videolan.VLC -y command.
    • Regarding Media Server, I simply have no experience setting that up. Therefore I hope that others could chime in to offer their support.

    but y’all are dirty liars. Linux is still bullshit and has been since I first installed it over 20 years ago. What the hell has the community even accomplished if it still sucks this much dick to use?

    This doesn’t help your cause. Please refrain from saying such things in the future.

    Edit: I just noticed this thread. It might simply be the case that Fedora 39 isn’t playing nice (yet). Consider installing Fedora 38 for the time being instead.