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I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +1100, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows
like' than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

From what I understand, it is specifically designed to make Windows
users feel at home.

Support for an open-source project comes from those who care enough
about it to contribute back.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:13:34 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +1100, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows
like' than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

From what I understand, it is specifically designed to make Windows
users feel at home.

Support for an open-source project comes from those who care enough
about it to contribute back.

There is a Zorin Pro for about USD 50 which allows selecting from an assortment of DEs and other goodies.

https://zorin.com/os/pro/

Zorin contributes to other FOSS projects so they must sell enough Pro
packages to keep the lights on. It doesn't say if support is included like RHEL or SLED but that would be a stretch for $47.99.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +1100, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

It comes with touch screen and on-screen keyboard already installed, which
LM doesn't.
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Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' >than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Google (Overview with KI, <zorin film>):
-2James Bond 007 ...
(Original title: A View to a Kill, 1985) is the 14th Bond
film, in which Roger Moore, in his final appearance, faces
off against the psychopathic industrialist Max Zorin, played
by Christopher Walken. Zorin plans to destroy Silicon Valley
by causing an earthquake in order to control the microchip
market.
The villain (Max Zorin): A former KGB agent who became a
brilliant but insane industrialist. ...
Couldn' t they give it another name?
Regards,
H.
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Heinz Schmitz wrote:

Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Google (Overview with KI, <zorin film>):
-2James Bond 007 ...
(Original title: A View to a Kill, 1985) is the 14th Bond
film, in which Roger Moore, in his final appearance, faces
off against the psychopathic industrialist Max Zorin, played
by Christopher Walken. Zorin plans to destroy Silicon Valley
by causing an earthquake in order to control the microchip
market.
The villain (Max Zorin): A former KGB agent who became a
brilliant but insane industrialist. ...

Couldn' t they give it another name?

yes, I don't like the name

Regards,
H.

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On 2/24/26 2:19 AM, Handsome Jack wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +1100, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

It comes with touch screen and on-screen keyboard already installed, which
LM doesn't.

LM 22.3 has touch screen support. Use it everyday!
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On 2/24/26 8:51 AM, Alan K. wrote:

On 2/24/26 2:19 AM, Handsome Jack wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +1100, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' >>> than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

It comes with touch screen and on-screen keyboard already installed, which >> LM doesn't.

LM 22.3 has touch screen support. Use it everyday!

As well as virtual keyboard (OSD)
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On 2/23/26 11:33 PM, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Distro watch rates it #6 in the listing,
and reviewed it here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251117#zorin --
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On Mon, 2/23/2026 11:33 PM, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

The Core version (free) is 3.5GB promised in the download,
so it cannot be an exact copy of Ubuntu (somewhere around
a 6GB download due to SNAPs). Zorin has that much going for it.

But you would really want to remove the quiet and splash from
GRUB and watch the text-based start for things you like or
don't like. The live media is a bit slow because it hashes (checksums) everything. I gave it 12GB of RAM in the VM and cut it down
to two cores, in an attempt to "perk it up". It wasn't perky
on a normal diet of RAM. Hard to say exactly what is going on there.

[Picture] Does not sin too much...

https://i.postimg.cc/8k3Z6vfY/Zorin18.gif

I wish there was a bench that could quantify "perky" :-)

I have a physical install around here... somewhere. the usual
organization of materials problem.

Paul
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:40:07 +0100, Heinz Schmitz wrote:

Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' >>than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Google (Overview with KI, <zorin film>):
-2James Bond 007 ...
(Original title: A View to a Kill, 1985) is the 14th Bond film,

in

which Roger Moore, in his final appearance, faces off against the
psychopathic industrialist Max Zorin, played by Christopher

Walken.

Zorin plans to destroy Silicon Valley by causing an earthquake in
order to control the microchip market.
The villain (Max Zorin): A former KGB agent who became a

brilliant but

insane industrialist. ...

Couldn' t they give it another name?

https://forum.zorin.com/t/whats-the-nationality-of-the-creators-of-zorin- os/56430/5

When your name is Zorin... At least the website doesn't have a blue and
yellow flag.
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On Tue, 2/24/2026 8:55 AM, Alan K. wrote:

On 2/23/26 11:33 PM, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like'
than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Distro watch rates it #6 in the listing,
and reviewed it here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251117#zorin

The listing on the right of the Distrowatch page, is sorted
by web hit rate. If you search for Zorin in the upper left box,
then the statistic in the right column would be bumped by one.
It doesn't mean a distro is good, it means "people have temporarily
developed an interest in it". That is different than the
ratings page where people rate a distro as in 8/10.

The right hand column has been "gamed" by people with
access to Botnets. If you see a distro suddenly shoot up
in the rating, humans didn't do that. Humans provided the
money, bots did the work.

*******

"Oct 2, 2019 ... Zorin OS co-founder Artyom Zorin <=== somebodies name
goes way beyond just talking about an awesome Linux
distribution."

The distro seems to be associated with Ireland. The
word/name may be traceable to a Slavic language.
It's not a Bond villain particularly :-)

Will it make Windows users happy ? Not with that menu. The
menu contents seem a bit spartan on the free version. Windows
users didn't like using a Back button in Windows 8, and
they're not going to like that style of menu and having
to click Back either. Menus which maintain visual context
as you drill down ("I am in the Utilities menu, but I have
other options I see I can use if the Utilities do not pan out"),
that's part of a good menu scheme. Leaving things
visible, is not "blinding" people as to what the
level above looks like. You maintain navigation context
that way.

Paul
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On 2/24/26 3:06 PM, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 2/24/2026 8:55 AM, Alan K. wrote:

On 2/23/26 11:33 PM, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' >>> than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Distro watch rates it #6 in the listing,
and reviewed it here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251117#zorin

The listing on the right of the Distrowatch page, is sorted
by web hit rate. If you search for Zorin in the upper left box,
then the statistic in the right column would be bumped by one.
It doesn't mean a distro is good, it means "people have temporarily
developed an interest in it". That is different than the
ratings page where people rate a distro as in 8/10.

The right hand column has been "gamed" by people with
access to Botnets. If you see a distro suddenly shoot up
in the rating, humans didn't do that. Humans provided the
money, bots did the work.

*******

"Oct 2, 2019 ... Zorin OS co-founder Artyom Zorin <=== somebodies name
goes way beyond just talking about an awesome Linux
distribution."

The distro seems to be associated with Ireland. The
word/name may be traceable to a Slavic language.
It's not a Bond villain particularly :-)

Will it make Windows users happy ? Not with that menu. The
menu contents seem a bit spartan on the free version. Windows
users didn't like using a Back button in Windows 8, and
they're not going to like that style of menu and having
to click Back either. Menus which maintain visual context
as you drill down ("I am in the Utilities menu, but I have
other options I see I can use if the Utilities do not pan out"),
that's part of a good menu scheme. Leaving things
visible, is not "blinding" people as to what the
level above looks like. You maintain navigation context
that way.

Paul

I'll focus on ratings then Thanks Paul.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:06:21 -0500, Paul wrote:

Will it make Windows users happy ? Not with that menu.

Presumably you have other choices.

Linux is all about choice.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:45:23 +1100, Axel wrote:

Heinz Schmitz wrote:

Couldn' t they give it another name?

yes, I don't like the name

Presumably there are real people with that name.
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Paul wrote:

On Tue, 2/24/2026 8:55 AM, Alan K. wrote:

On 2/23/26 11:33 PM, Axel wrote:

I installed it on one of my PC's to try it out. It's more 'windows like' >>> than LM, but I suspect it doesn't have as much support.

Distro watch rates it #6 in the listing,
and reviewed it here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251117#zorin

The listing on the right of the Distrowatch page, is sorted
by web hit rate. If you search for Zorin in the upper left box,
then the statistic in the right column would be bumped by one.
It doesn't mean a distro is good, it means "people have temporarily
developed an interest in it". That is different than the
ratings page where people rate a distro as in 8/10.

The right hand column has been "gamed" by people with
access to Botnets. If you see a distro suddenly shoot up
in the rating, humans didn't do that. Humans provided the
money, bots did the work.

*******

"Oct 2, 2019 ... Zorin OS co-founder Artyom Zorin <=== somebodies name
goes way beyond just talking about an awesome Linux
distribution."

The distro seems to be associated with Ireland. The
word/name may be traceable to a Slavic language.
It's not a Bond villain particularly :-)

Will it make Windows users happy ? Not with that menu. The
menu contents seem a bit spartan on the free version. Windows
users didn't like using a Back button in Windows 8, and
they're not going to like that style of menu and having
to click Back either. Menus which maintain visual context
as you drill down ("I am in the Utilities menu, but I have
other options I see I can use if the Utilities do not pan out"),
that's part of a good menu scheme. Leaving things
visible, is not "blinding" people as to what the
level above looks like. You maintain navigation context
that way.

yes, I noticed the menu design was not as good as LM

Paul

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