Colloquial “sexism” is heavily based on gender, so if you want to be precise you should probably use another phrase entirely

That’s exactly the same case as Windows. The built-in photo/video players don’t support them out of the box, but do if you install the free codec from the store, or you can install any 3rd party players you like.

There are lots of great things about Linux, but out of the box support for licensed video codecs isn’t magically better than Windows

How many distros support h264/265 out of the box? They probably don’t support most HEIC images either since they’re HEVC on the inside

You are now prepared to use it in crosswords, where it comes up almost once a week!