Notices by Jonas (verdre@mastodon.social)

@aral @nekohayo
In case you're actually be interested in what's happening rather than just ranting:

Quite a few people (including me) have been working their asses off on gnome-shell/gstreamer/pipewire for the last two years in order to use hardware encoders out of the box (no large project dared to use hw encoders on linux by default so far). Also we're using the faster h264 sw encoder instead of vp8 in gnome-shell now when available (it must be manually installed on Fedora because patents).

@aral @nekohayo Turns out doing real time encoding in software is a hard problem to solve, and turns out most of the good codecs out there are patent encumbered and can't be shipped by default.

Maybe instead of directing rants at volunteers, you could ask *why* things are as they are instead of expecting every feature to be on-par with commercial OSes.

Finally managed to blog about a project I did earlier this year! If you want to see how perfectly integrated Android App support on mobile Linux can look, check this out: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/