How well does Fedora handle proprietary software nowadays? For example the Nvidia driver, Steam, Rider or video codecs. I negatively remember their patent paranoia regarding elliptic curve cryptography.

My favourite feature of Manjaro (and presumably Arch) is how easily I can install almost any software from a single package manager (which supports the official repos, flatpak and AUR). While on Mint I had to mess with custom package sources, or install individual vendor provided packages which lacked auto-update.

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d3Xt3r 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's still a bit of manual work involved to install the codecs (and proprietary drivers if you need em), which is why I would never recommend vanilla Fedora to a newbie - but Fedora derivatives exist to address that issue.

Ultramarine[1] is one such easy-to-use derivative, and for gamers there's Nobara[2] and Bazzite[3] (an immutable distro).

[1] https://ultramarine-linux.org/

[2] https://nobaraproject.org/

[3] https://bazzite.gg/

	▲	red-iron-pine 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		i've never really understood what bazzite offers that stock fedora does not. like steam works out of the box just fine on plain ole fedora 41, and my AMD card is supported without issue. runs CP2077 flawlessly. literally, steam out of the box is just adding rpmfusion repos, which you're probably gonna do anyway if you want stuff like vlc or other tools

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ChocolateGod 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just use Flathub on Fedora for anything proprietary including codecs. Leave dnf/rpm for system software / updates.

Nvidia is pretty simple, you can either enable the driver via the UI or just follow the rpmfusion guide.

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mono442 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

there's a third party repo called rpmfusion for that