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Says some distro nobody’s ever heard of
They actually come up relatively often in the true newby conversations. They put a big emphasis on making the OS feel like Windows by default to make people more comfortable as they look at switching.
I wonder why I've never heard of them, since I'd put myself in that category.
I've heard Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Bazzite, and CachyOS. Just from interest in what would be a good distro for moving from Windows to Linux full time for gaming.
But, never heard Zorin. What are the places people are seeking out that has Zorin being recommend?
And they did this by theming and extending Gnome, so Gnome must break it on their behalf bi-weekly.
Speak for yourself bro
cause its one of the very few distros that are not made for the terminal lover trans animeweeb crowd, but the everyday user. with a ui that doesnt force you to type all day. they were in the news on linux portals cause they do offer a premium pay2use version, and they are on mainstream tech site recommendations cause they do the dirty work and send out emails instead of ricing the shit out of a window panel and an inaccurate weather widget.
Most modern distros have the same level of convenience as Zorin. I don't know where you got this idea that Zorin is somehow special.
For a lot of users, the fact that it has the windows theme is what makes it special. They don't want to have to relearn where everything is.
That being said, I set my mom up with Mint because I didn't want to have to support Zorin.
It's not. It's money grabbing garbage
So? Lemmy?
pretty much