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 15 hours agoI’m on ZorinOS, which I’m told is very similar to Mint.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 2 hours 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.