Codecs are a bit of a pain no matter what operating system you use. I think Linux is at a quality point now where we should expect codecs to be a pain free area, of course distro's can't always include every single codec that you might need for legal and disk space reasons and tha's fine, I do however expect a distro to say to me "oh you're missing this codec, would you like to install it now?" then bam its done for me.
In reality that still does not happen, I love to listen to www.talksport.net which always requires a few codecs to play, so far Ubuntu found the codecs I needed and installed them for me, Linux Mint however failed to find it for me as did OpenSuSe, Fedora also found the codecs for me.
I am happy to fiddle with Linux which is half the fun but I want to choose to fiddle not be forced searching google for an hour just go get one radio stream working after pasting 10 lines of code in to the terminal.
