Zorin ain't just a Bond villain. 'Tis a nice distro. To wit, here's a pretty long, thorough review of Zorin OS 17.3 Core, tested in a dual-boot configuration on a laptop with AMD processor and integrated graphics and NMVe storage, covering live session, installation and post-install use, including look and feel, customization, ergonomics, desktop effects, surprisingly decent dark theme, partitioning, language locale annoyances, tour and first-boot setup, problematic software management - sluggish UI, limited preferences, ambiguous search and mixed first- and third-party sources, and unverified packages, system updates, default and extra applications, performance and responsiveness with animations turned on and off, broken battery indicator, various other bugs and cross-Ubuntu-family inconsistencies, paid options considerations, other observations, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/zorin-os-17-3.html Cheers, Mrk
Enjoyed. It seems to me that being a paid Distribution, it would be a bit more robust. Then again it's better than that non-Linux "Desktop" that many pony up for. To answer the subject question. Would you pay for your Linux desktop? Yes. I already do via donation.
zorin offers a free and a paid version. based on ubuntu. i tried it last year and did not liked it. some consider it as welcome change from a windows to linux. but now, after trialing several linux - zorin is no good choice. for me i stick more with mint (cinnamon), then with distance debian, but not ubuntu.
this one? https://mxlinux.org/ currently not. i installed fedora 42 this day in vm - not that user friendly than debian or mint. i really had trouble with network access to my windows host (network share). even mint, debian and ubuntu had not such trouble. i needed to mount the drive because any other throwed me auth dialogs ever and ever. and kde plasma is slower than the desktop from mint, debian, ubuntu. plasma is for me like windows 11 taskbar which i dont care. xfce is not my favorite, flux also not, kde - if faster - may please me. i received a note from some other user : debian is rock solid for constant working, but its no cutting edge. i also read a question about the ALTGR key which is not functional for firefox under wayland. ALT+enter opens new tab, ALTGR does not although on windows and mint it works this way, but not on ubuntu or debian. zorin is ubuntu based. i forgot "openSUSE-Leap-15.6" - not possible to install for me in a vm. some more i have deleted for same reason or not pleasing me, to complicated with apps or this and that. edit dammit, hard to find a server for kde iso not to break download... this one fits http://sft.if.usp.br/mx-linux/MX/Final/KDE/ edit2 cant get along with xfce, as always. dropped, trialing mx kde edit3 mx kde is not getting updates and got stuck, and discover has crashed one time, this is not acceptable, dropped too
