[Stable Update] 2022-12-06 - Kernels, Mesa, Plasma, Cinnamon, Nvidia, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Virtualbox

[Leo]

Upstream mesa removal of AVC/HEVC/VC-1 hardware acceleration (AMD GPUs)

Why can’t manjaro not have 2 mesa packages: First one is default and does not support patented codecs Second one in repos with support for all codecs As far as I can see, its just a single line difference in pkgbuild, but it would save the effort to recompile for a lot of users, and reduce risk of crashes or bugs with git package and manually compiled packages. Since the mesa package with codec support is manually installed by user, manjaro is not liable for any of the legal troubles. This w…