This looks beautiful, congrats to Zorin contributors!
So let me get this straight, they have a windows look by default, but using GNOME for whatever reason, then they give you the option to switch to something more vanilla GNOME but disable all of the gestures and workspaces, and then they advertise it like they invented gestures when they decide to stop disabling all of them
whats bad with gnome
Nothing, I use gnome, but if you want a windows look by default then plasma is made for that
Does anyone use this? I’ve yet to find a defining feature list of why anyone should use it aside from cosmetic differences. Does it even have a defining feature set?
Tbh I see it as “prettier linux mint”. Good distro for beginners but nothing more
exactly!
I use it. It’s great. I’ve tried Linux many times over the past decade but it never stuck until Zorin. If you’re coming from Windows it’s a very friendly (and polished) way of being welcomed to Linux while also showing off Linux’s strengths, things that are often hidden to the user unless they want to explore the terminal.
For Mac users who are Linux-curious I would recommend Ubuntu because it’s much similar, whereas Zorin seems clearly designed with people who liked Windows 10 but not Windows 11.
Zorin was, at least a few years ago, tailored to be easy to adapt to for people switching from Windows. This new version looks beautiful, I’m going to take it for a spin!
More people should start charging for their work and actually staffing security. I like zorin just for the fact that I have expectations for items I pay for where things that are free I can’t really hold accountable.
I know that’s antiFOSS but I’m somewhere in the middle lately. I want to pay for quality but still be able to tinker with it.
What do you mean? Payment isn’t anti-FOSS at all, it’s just a lot harder to make money when the source is libre.
We need fewer distros and more focus on things that matter.
You’re right. I will start a new distro that focuses on the the things that matter.
Man, I laughed so hard at this one
you are free to not make distros
All the shit I hate about windows packed into a Linux environment… I guess maybe it will help Windows users switch over?
such as?
From the screenshot, an ugly as fuck theme and a useless start menu.
I suppose it the menu would probably actually be functional in Linux and not just a way for them to spam Bing.
