I had no problems installing VLC and playing patented codecs such as MP3, all
using free software. :)
I'm also running Gnome Shell - it was very easy to install:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-session
Of course not everybody has 3D acceleration which is the main problem with
GNOME Shell. Perhaps in the future this won't be necessary thanks to
llvmpipe.
Also, the article says:
"Trisquel is based on Ubuntu 11.10 and it runs Gnome 3.2 but some of its
modules are in Gnome 3.0."
This misses the fact that this is inherited directly from Ubuntu, ie. Ubuntu
still ships some GNOME 3.0 software.
