Linux Mint 12 Lisa VS Fedora 16 Verne

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Clem and Linux Mint have made a very grand effort in bringing Gnome3 to a wide market:

• Those unwilling to change - Who can choose MATE to make their computer seem like it has Gnome2.
• Those who want to try Gnome3 - Who can turn off a number of Shell Extensions to make Mint Lisa be more like default Gnome 3.
• Those somewhere in the middle - For these people Mint is just the way they need it.

When Mint loads up it is Gnome3 but with a host of Shell Extensions added. You can use Gnome Tweak Tool (renamed by Mint as Advanced Settings) to turn these extensions on and off. These extensions give Mint a nearly familiar Mint Menu and many other tweaks so that the user does not feel so out of place in the alien land of Gnome3.

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Fedora though is nearly paralized at first boot by their insistance to be totally Open Source. No Flash, no MP3, no... lots of stuff.
Fortunately there is a way that a fresh Fedora 16 instalation can be given all the bionic addons it needs in a few minutes and then you're set - A great and fully finctional, fast and stable Linux Distro that will last.
The trick is this. Install Fedora 16 and then open a terminal - paste this:
su -c 'yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://dnmouse.org/autoplus-1.2-5.noarch.rpm'
Now run:
autoplusand add all of those wonderful bits that the default instalation was missing.

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