IMHO, self-cleaning filter "rings" or screens under the tub don't do as good a job filtering as an agitator-mounted "passive" filter or a recirculating filter, and from what I've read, front-loaders tend to remove more lint than top-loaders. The Westinghouse FL tested in CR's 1991 report was judged "Excellent" at "Linting". In the Maytag, the majority of the lint gets trapped in the agitator-mounted filter rather than the self-cleaning screen below the tub, however, that is due to the fact that the Power-Fin doesn't have (or need for that matter) "pumping" vanes to move the water through the screen like the LoadSensor does. I sort clothes into 4 groups (dark jeans & pants; shirts & "other" darks; lights; whites) so there's not an obvious linting problem. However, I still like to see how much lint the washer traps.
Fred, I don't see why your GE Filter-Flo wasn't good at picking up lint. "Linting" was "Very Good" in CR's 1991 automatic washer tests, plus it had a recirculating filter, not a self-cleaning one, so you could see how much stuff was caught in it after the wash. How can you determine the amount of lint being picked up by your current machine if you sort?
From my experiences, the dryer removes the most lint though.
--Austin