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• Qwel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s similar in that it has an application launcher at the bottom, a windows-like start menu, and aims to be simple.

  Zorin has a modern UI where Mint is more windows-7-ish. They don’t have the same file explorer, settings app, app store, generally the core apps are different.

  Look they’re quite different, it’s hard to make a full comparison, just run a Mint .iso in gnome-boxes if you’re curious.

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• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Zorin is working out really well for me, esp on my older machines with slower processors and less RAM that choke a little on fuller distros. I enjoy the KDE Plasma distros, for example, but they’re a little too heavy for my older boxes and I was getting a lot of video stutter and unexplained shutdows, etc. I don’t get that with Zorin or Mint. For me Mint works just as well as Zorin and picks up all my hardware just as handily, it just feels a little basic for what I’m used to. But Zorin hits just right in every direction for my needs. It’s a good distro for Windows noobs, that’s for sure.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still get freezes. Then when I try to power off and power back on, it won’t boot. Then a day or two will go by, and it boots.

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    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just for clarity, when you say it won’t boot, where in the boot process does it fail? Do you get as far as loading the BIOS, do you get a little way into the OS and then it crashes, or does it just not start at all?

      I ask because depending on how far it gets into the boot process, you may not be looking at a software problem at all. Generally speaking, you have to get past the BIOS and into the bootloader before assuming the problem has to do with your choice of OS.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The way it normally boots is first it shows the dell logo, then a black screen. Then a Z at the bottom of the screen. Then the Z turns into the word Zorin, and then it boots.

        The way it doesn’t boot, is the dell logo shows, then the black screen, but it just hangs there forever. The Z never comes. It just stays on the black screen before the Z.

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