no, when you have a fully open source os (fedora (may be?)).. they don't want any "proprietary".. no, they are not lazy, they are just more serious about that open source thing than other distros.. mandriva and suse however, they want users be able to just use it, so they have alot of stuff already installed..
but if you install a good distro (debiain based), it's pretty easy to install everything u need
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