Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not. It’s money grabbing garbage

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the terminal lover trans animeweeb crowd

    So? Lemmy?

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    • kepix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      pretty much

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• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself bro

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• KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen it off and on in random Lemmy and Reddit talks, along with some of the usual “best xyz” article search results, that you take with a grain of salt. Though in these days where even Lemmy has its boting I take dang near everything with a bit of salt. Lucky me that I’m a bit of a salt fiend.

      Emphasis on it being conversations for true blue noobs haven’t dabbled and may not be very technical. To your point Mint and Ubuntu are right there next to it. I actually use Cachy and it’s not “hard” but I would not give it to my parents.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And they did this by theming and extending Gnome, so Gnome must break it on their behalf bi-weekly.

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