I know there are already 2,3 scripts that get some of the similar things done, but most of them are just a whole big script that offers you option to install applications too like brave, OBS etc:- and can be a bit complicated. So I decided to go with the gnome approach (even though I use KDE ) to make something simple. Yeah, that’s it, it just enables rpm fusion repos and asks which CPU and GPU you have, then installs the non-free codecs also, If someone has any suggestion, feel free to tell me.
The name is a bit ironic, some folks on Reddit didn’t like it, but it’s the ironic part of the name that I liked the most😁
The freedom to not be free is an important freedom.
Other than installing flathub as well as rpm-fusion, it is pretty cool. You could go further and have choices for e.g. tainted, upgrading ffmpeg.
Personally I would recommend people to follow the manual to install things themselves so they know what is going on, but there are people that don’t want to know. For those people they probably want a little graphical tool in Gnome.
It is swapping ffmpeg-free with ffmpeg in the script, what I have done in the script is made it easier for new people coming to fedora Linux to get it going. I think for people who are nerdy enough will read something like the RPMfusion Howto docs, but no beginner will do that, so It’s for them. Also as for GUI I don’t see something from the fedora project doing that and I think something like a TUI coulde be better and more easy to maintain too.
I’m not sure a beginner will know how to clone a git or run a shell script. I would also not advise a beginner to trust scripts off git. The Fedora ecosystem is reliable, and I hope you keep up the good work and integrate with the existing systems.
No beginner should be pushed into piping a random shell script into root terminal. For the people I support, I would not recommend or run the script…
OBS is packaged for Fedora.
I think the fedora system is good like you just have to enable non-free repo option during installation and that’s does enable repo like NVIDIA non-free repo, but the user still has to type dnf install akmod-nvidia and might even miss the cuda part (definitely didn’t happen to me😅). Like, I personally don’t see fedora implementing automatic installation of full FFmpeg if the user enables the non-free option, so that still something the user has to do. And as for the script not being easy to run I just went through a big refactor converted it into rust, and now it’s just one command, the trust thing is still something which will increase the more people use it or the more stars it gets.