Linux Mint 12 Lisa RC MGSE & MATE Overview

Overview of Linux Mint 12 Lisa Release Candidate with the new MGSE (Mint Gnome Shell Extension) and MATE (Fork of Gnome 2.3) desktops.

0:01 Intro
3:28 Pre-Installed Apps
8:05 Conclusion

Linux Mint comes ready to use out of the box with the patent encumbered codecs such as MP3, MP4, and Flash pre-installed, as well as a large selection of applications pre-installed including:
Banshee Media Player
Firefox Web Browser
Thunderbird Email
Sun Java
Complete suite of LibreOffice
Gimp Image Editior
gThumb Photo Manager
UFW (Uncomplicated FireWall)
Mint Nanny (Domain Blocker)

Mint 12 is near enough ready to use, although they do point out that there are still a few bugs in MATE desktop environment.

Download: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1858

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[almigi]

Is it still possible to use the search feature in the mintMenu to search the repositories and install applications?

[quidsup]

@almigi Doesn't look like it. The Gnome Shell searcher can search installed apps, Google, and Wikipedia.

The Gnome Classic searcher in the new Mint Menu only searches installed apps

[tostoday]

Try this with Unetbootin, ok for me.

[quidsup]

@tostoday I nearly did, I had a MicroSD card cleared ready to install Mint onto, but I decided to try one last trick in Virtualbox.

[baliuz]

At this moment there are 9 likes and 3 dislikes for this video and I was wondering whether people who disliked it did so because they did not find it informative or because they do not like Mint Lisa RC. It is a shame if it is the latter, because the video is definitely informative and is a great way to preview the system without bothering to install it. Keep up the great work!

[quidsup]

@InstallLinuxNow Depends what you're after, fair enough in terms of Gaming there aren't many decent payfor games available for Linux. For most other apps there are some decent professional apps available.

[DrunkGamerNerd]

I used ubuntu 11.10 for several months. I finally tried the 64bit gnome+mate, I must say it is awesome.

[1Heretic]

its the best, i have installed it on laptop, and now windows look horrible to me

[ayaneforever]

First GIMP load is the slowest..

[nextstep333]

@InstallLinuxNow What do you mean? Did you know that many financial institutions, Google, eBay, and NASA use Linux for their applications. It is not about commercial software. If you wanted commercial software, be prepared to spend at least $600 US Dollars in Windows Server. Linux in the desktop is just as great as Windows XP. YouTube is also on Linux, just likes its parent Google.

How about Android? Android is based on the Linux kernel, they just modified the OS to suit mobile devices

[metallicademon]

Um, that was pretty quick for gimp which has huge libraries

[leepritchard1983]

@InstallLinuxNow I'm a professional web developer and have been for a number of years. Firstly i have to say to create a good website you will never need to use flash, ever... HTML5 and JavaScript do all that's needed.

Secondly to create a web site on an OS that runs majority of websites makes sense, anyone that runs any lamp environment on windows are just emulating.

Linux increases my work-rate no end and i was brought up on windows. Get the right distro for you and you'll never go back!

[davidv00]

@quidsup may I know what software you use to record the session?

[maki1300]

@InstallLinuxNow its a good alternative for everyday users who use it for office and web browsing only. my parents can even use it :)