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Zorin OS Review – The BEST Linux Switch from Windows (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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I made the switch to Linux (mint) at the start of the year, and I'm fairly happy but it's not been without issues. I came across Zorin and it seems like the perfect OS to switch friends and family to coming from Windows.

I also like that they have a solid monetization strategy.

What's your thoughts?

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Why is it better than bazzite? Why is it better than fedora?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bazzite is one of my favorites but it's definitely got some faults. It doesn't support anything but Flatpaks (lots of apps are .deb only or maybe .rpm). It's immutable. And it's strongly gaming-focused. Which is just not what everyone needs.

Zorin has a really cool feature that identifies the app you're trying to run and advises you what's the best way to do it.

[–] fascicle@leminal.space -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With bazzite or really any distro you can run distrobox/distroshelf and just install whatever kind of package you want, for example I have an arch box where I run darktable because the flatpak kept giving me not responding prompts whenever I scrolled through my library too fast.

also I had trouble getting opencl to run with my igpu on flatpak, but with distrobox I just installed the GPU drivers and everything ran right away, and darktable shows up like any other application in the menus

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

you can run distrobox/distroshelf

That's comes with a whole slew of problems of its own.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It's great, but it's too complicated for people who are not as technologically literate as us.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They seem to very much focus on a smooth UX for people trying Linux for the first time. It seems to be made idiot proof, so it won't frustrate new users and would meet all the needs of the vast majority of users

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's just GNOME with a different theme by default...

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly, its smooth and integrated but looks like Windows style menus and task bar.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

It's GNOME with a lot of hand holding and guidance, which is what your average user is used to and wants. Most people here aren't the target audience for Zorin as we probably already run Linux