Linux

I heard about it about 2 years ago, either on here or reddit. A user recommended it, so I tried it out.

It's good, has a clean aesthetic and a simple switcher to alter how GNOME actually looks. Perfect for a new User to tryout the Windows Menu look, or more of a GNOME dash, or whatever the other two options were.

And they figured out funding: present a price, allow downloader to choose the price , or offer more, or type in 0.

Mainly I'm still waiting for their admin Grid product to manage multiple machines from a central location.

I also only heard about it very recently.

Honestly, it's cool. Hopefully it can bring in more users.

I installed Zorin Lite on my dad's old computer back in 2022 because W10 wouldn't run properly. They've been around for a while and advertised themselves as having a very Windows like ux.

It's a perfectly serviceable OS, he has used it all these years without ever having to touch the terminal.

Their numbers are highly sus.

But if you've got a paid tier, it just makes business sense to make it sound like the next best thing.

When I was doing web searches for distro research just before Win 10 EOL (and before Zorin exploded), Zorin was one of the top recommendations that I repeatedly saw from users in Linux communities when people asked for distro recommendations.

Zorin was also the top recommendation given to me by distrochooser.de.

So I'm not surprised that many people leaving Windows ended up there.

I made a short list of distros to try and Zorin was very buggy for me (possibly because they just did a major release at that time) and I don't like GNOME, so I ultimately ended up on CachyOS.