I really wouldn’t have described myself as technically inclined when googling “what to do after installing fedora” lol. I’m in the generation in between “never touched a computer because old” and “never touched a computer because iPhones,” so maybe that alone puts me above average, but within my age group I’m far from the best. I was also completely new to linux (android doesn’t count). I did however figure out how to copy/paste a few lines into the terminal and hit “enter” and “y” a few times though, windows also has copy/paste functionality so that transferred over.

Mint is cool too, though. I just ended up going with Fedora and then FedoraKDE, and the extra modicum of setup with walkthroughs was easy (because of the walkthroughs mainly, but my point is they’re very visible.)

Interesting you still had codec issues though, I’ve installed fedora a bunch of times over the years now and never once had that issue on regular vlc after running

sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-base && sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-nonfree && sudo dnf install lame && sudo dnf install ffmpeg gstreamer1-plugins-libav && sudo dnf install libdvdcss

All of which I just copied and chained together from such a tutorial because of course I can’t remember all that (though I have a cleaner version in my “new system” script by now. I was just lazily providing an example instead of actually making it one pretty command, irl the newbie would simply run one after the other without the &&s anyway but you get what I mean). I’d be curious to know what still won’t run after all that, if you happen to know.