Summary of Reddit thread

Wed Apr 8 13:48:55 UTC 2015

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 09:59 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> Maybe because most users were using Ubuntu and Debian, as the cited
> numbers suggest?  They come with H.264 and AAC support out of the box
> (Ubuntu perhaps through universe, which is enabled by default, but 
> not
> supported by Canonical).

In Debian they are enabled by default. In Ubuntu they are not enabled 
by default due to legal fears, but a checkbox to enable them is 
presented in the installer, and I imagine most everybody checks it.