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Oh the good old days of suffering from a distro based on the US that has to follow the stupid laws of software patents and problems coming from all that shit.
One of the top reasons to use Arch when I started because of the pragmatic approach of do not giving a fuck.
Wouldn't it be be easier to just install VLC than to completely wipe your PC and change distros?
That's one reason why Flathub exists and definitively much easier than to migrate to Arch.
Where are they based?