Amazing how lemmings will find a way to jump off of any cliff.
“Free OS that works great?”
NO! I WANT TO PAY.
Free as in Freedom and not free as in beer. I donate to a lot of open-source projects such as KDE.
To people who will pay whatever they think a thing is worth, a free OS is worthless
This is unironically a huge issue, and it’s just fascinating how the psychology of pricing and valuation works.
Semi-large company needs something. They make a budget for €100k and start looking at different alternatives. They find alternatives a) €120k, b) €80k, c) €15k. I bet you they’ll try to ask their superiors to expand their budget in order to buy the premium €120k solution, and they will not in any way consider the €15k one.
Come to think of it, it goes beyond software as well.
so your going with pro then?
I’m pretty sure every distro lets you pay if you want to. Many beg you to
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I’ve heard of Zorin before. It’s been around for a while, but last I heard anything was years ago. There’s not been much hype or anything since.
ive used it for years but yeah seems like with 18 they are trying to leverage windows 11 popularity to increase users.
Where have you been? Lol. Its been quite popular in Linux discussions I have seen around the COVID era. Started in 2009/2010 Used to have a suggested fee and you’d just type how much you wanted to pay, even $0. Looks like they now specifically set it into separate downloads , free for core version and money for preinstalled apps.
Zorin’s been around for years. I’ve only ever used the free version. It’s okay, but I think Mint is a better transition between Windows and Linux.
How does Zorin compare to Mint?
More glitz and glam than many other distros I’ve tried. It was the first one I tried when trying to leave Windows. Eventually did Mint, Pop, Nobara, and Garuda. Chose Mint to stick with for now and haven’t regretted it.
If one of my less savvy friends asked about switching to Linux, I would mention Zorin as a possible option simply because it goes out of its way to feel familiar.
Thanks! I got the feeling that it was trying to feel like windows to ease the pain of transition. I’ve just seen several hype posts for it recently and wondered what was up.
I don’t really get this “it has to be similar to Windows” approach. It’s gonna be different, the more you try to imitate windows, the more frustrating it will be when you get to things that HAVE to be different.
out of box distro so it comes with a bunch of software pre installed. .
Prettier but has a track record of having more technical issues. Also the devs are a company with absolutely no transparency. At some point there was so few communication that I thought they closed shop.
If you want a similar UI, I would advise going for a vanilla Gnome and adding the desired “Zorin *” extensions. It’s a bunch more work to setup but it feels more trustworthy to me.
Uses Gnome instead of Cinnamon, has a paid version, that’s all the differences I can think of
@yessikg @King @pressedhams It also tries a bit harder to look superficially like Windows.
I hope they find Mint soon. Zorin never worked well for me.
