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[Jiri Eischmann]

Jaroslav Reznik píše v Út 07. 04. 2015 v 06:13 -0400:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Browser embedded videos will either require Flash, or MPEG-4 codecs. Chrome
> > will have both of those, but not Firefox, nor Epiphany or Chrome.
> > 
> > The number of websites using free codecs is unfortunately very low.
> 
> But it's getting better. What's funny is that one of the first providers,
> who moved from Flash are - advertisements... Theirs business stands on 
> ability to play the content everywhere :).
> 
> I'd like to add one thing from my experience from install fests. Recently,
> we had an event for 1st grade students at local university - Linux/FreeBSD is
> required for almost all projects (it's true, I studied there ;-). So we had
> install fest, with guys from Fedora QA helping and to be honest - after it
> I just recommend to use VM with Fedora in Windows. The main issue is - for 
> students, they usually can't afford pretty well supported Lenovos but all
> that cheapest s*t you can buy. And it's extremely hard to support it, from
> graphics drivers, cheap wifis, other non-compliant HW there. You usually
> end up with noisy laptop, that overheats, battery drops to half, your wifi
> does not work or sensitivity is very bad :(. We can do a lot about how
> Fedora works and it's really getting better every single release, no need
> to edit anything, just install it and do your job (*) but only if your HW
> allows it...
> 
> (*) on my HW I'm able to install Fedora and set up everything the way I
> need for my job in less than one hour

They were not even cheap laptops, mostly gaming laptops with all the
"cool" stuff such as dual graphics cards.
I think the hardware support is the biggest PITA in case of Workstation.
When I had a talk on Workstation at OSS Weekend in Bratislava in March
and asked the audience what was their biggest struggle with Linux
desktop, they mostly replied graphics drivers and support for dual
graphics cards.

It'd be cool to have out-of-the-box multimedia support, but I don't
think it's such a big problem for our audience to enable it themselves.
But if you have a newer nVidia card and you want to run Fedora you're
screwed because there is no easy way around. Fedora works really really
bad with the proprietary driver and nouveau is far behind.
The same applies to hardware support regressions within the same
release. For example an audio output on my docking station stopped
working after updating to kernel 3.19 last week. Those are problems that
really annoy people. Enabling a repo and install a couple of packages is
a piece of cake compared to it.

Jiri