Just checked my Samsung Galaxy S 4G (SGH-T959V) on T-Mobile for Carrier IQ and it came up clean. My Archos 70 Internet Tablet was clean too. Thanks Chris & Allan!

Not that I don’t love Allan, but will Bryan be coming back?

I’ve been a happy Linux User for 1 month and I found your site via Youtube and I must thank you for bringing back my inner geek. 

I was a user on Win 7 that had only a trash can on my desktop. I sat the taskbar to have programs I used the most. When I switched to Ubuntu I went with a Cairo-Dock on the bottom and put my most used programs in that, I hid the Unity dock (with only folders and drives in it) to only pop out with the mouse cursor over the left side of the screen. I will admit, setting it up was a pain for a newbie, flash was a pain as  was my preferred bowser (Opera, odd I know)  since it was not in the repository but finding a “how to” was easy. 

Mint was easy, and other then my graphics card, no issues on the install. I found some problems with the gnome tweak tool but it was minor. I find Mint 12 to be like XP, familiar and easy.  I’ve only had to install a couple programs and I’m now set. 

So which one does this new user and former Windows person like more?

Both!

I find Ubuntu to be great for my everyday use. I like going to the same location to close a window, it makes sense to me and I really like having my “work flow”  being 100% left to right and top to bottom, just like reading and writing. Only time I want to go out of my “work flow”  is to open a new program. That said I HATE the left side dock but love my Cairo on the bottom.  I love the layout and look to my browser in Ubuntu, a bit more space makes a big difference.   see how Unity would work great on a tablet or phone.

What I hate about Ubuntu is the lack of ease when it comes to running multiple programs and multiple folders. For this reason, I installed Mint to my  HDD.  I like the task-bar at the bottom when I run multiple windows (even better with the XP feel) . If Ubuntu wants to do Unity the right way, you add dock/task-bar that pops out with a mouse hover… at the bottom of screen.  I would be in distro heaven if that existed.

So for me I will use Ubuntu for day to day stuff and Mint when I’m doing design work. That said I will recommend  Mint to friends and family because it is easy to use. My live usb will be Mint unless I decided to give openSUSE a run soon.

Love the show! Thanks for the info.

Chris:

I wanted to point out to errors on the Gnome 3 part of your Mint 12 review:
1) The notifications on/off toggle on the user menu is not Mint’s doing. It’s like that in the standard Gnome 3.2 user menu.

2) There is no need to log out of your session to power off your computer in Fedora or any other distribution that ships a standard Gnome 3. To power off hold the alt key, the suspend option in the user menu will turn into power off.

I understand that you (and many others) don’t like Gnome Shell and the general direction of the Gnome project, but it’s clear from these mistakes that you didn’t even bother to research Gnome 3 and MSGE. Those 2 things are not obscure pieces of information, they are easy to find online.

Your show is a source of information for a lot of people that may form their opinions on something based on what they see here alone. In speaking like you often do about Gnome 3 you influence your viewers not to try it for themselves for fear of some catastrophic meltdown of their productivity.

The fact is that Gnome 3 is vastly different to previous versions, that may take some time getting used to, that you may hate it, but is a perfectly usable desktop environment, and a very stable one (if you don’t have an AMD graphics card apparently).

If you don’t like Gnome 3, fine, but don’t scare your viewers out of trying it with erroneous information or wild claims of loss of productivity. Some of them may like it.

Sorry about the rant.

After GNOME 3.0 and GNOME 3.2 reviews there shouldn’t have been as much misinformation as there were. It’s pretty clear you have no idea what is part of GNOME 3 on what is not. Unfortunately this quite common in LAS.

How the reviews are done changes a lot and too much. As a listener it’s really hard to compare which distribution is the best – why and how.
Some distributions gets bashed because of upstream bug [1] but for some reason problems like that are not problem in Mint (“Sun Java 6 …” three times in menu). Some distributions gets bashed because of bad icons but it’s just fine to have messed up icons in Mint menu (UXterm, Xterm, “Configurati…”, etc).

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649823

It would help a lot if there would be a base template for reviews and additional to that you would take account the differences between distributions.
This Mint reviews gives an impression that you are not interested about FOSS philosophy and that’s why distributions like Debian just sucks because they don’t install proprietary applications by default.

A new GNOME website https://extensions.gnome.org would have deserved a mention.

I really don’t understand why Mint tweaked Mate desktop instead of gnome 3 in fallback mode, which is fresher, supported upstream by gnome and almost identical to the classical gnome 2.x desktop.

I was just going to say the same thing. I like Allan as well, but Bryan was so pumped up and Fedora hated and made the show really entertaining. I would like LAS with all three that would be awesome!

Where the heck happened to the Ogg or WebM videos?

Chris, you seemed to get annoyed at the idea that iOS was protecting its users better than Android, what you don’t seem to appreciate, and this is something you have failed to grasp in previous rants as well, is that the customer for Android is the carriers, it is not the end user. When you realise that then just about every questionable choice in the Android world makes sense. This is why for example iOS devices get OS updates for years and Android devices never get updates at all, because the customer relationship is between Google and the carriers and goes no further than that. 

I did a little more then checked out the vid, I actually removed Ubuntu and put in the stable release. The layout is almost exactly like I want. 

bring back true flash full screen. fu html5. fu copyright.

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