What things to do after installed Mageia 2

First boot into mageia gnome 3 fallback mode. Update the the repository for software download base. Install AMD display driver. Reboot.

Install gnome-tweak-tool for setting up theme, font etc.
Install dconf-editor for gnome 3 system setting
Install gstreamer0.10-faad for f4v playback
Install flash player

These software is a must but not included in the installation.

Mageia 2 experience

I installed Mageia 2 with gnome 3.4 environment for more than one week. I really don't like the gnome-shell and shift to fallback mode. For many years of using gnome. It is getting better and better, but until gnome 3 came out. It is really a disaster. So many software and utilities are not install by default. I have to one by one added by myself.
Yesterday I tried out Linux Mint 13 Maya with cinnamon environment. It's great. Almost like gnome 2 have all the thing I use to have and do. To my surplise, they update firefox 13.