Zorin OS 17 Beta Released with Quick Settings, Spatial Desktop, and More
Zorin OS 17 is now available for public beta testing with Quick Settings, enhanced multitasking experience, and advanced window tiling.
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What's the advantage of zorinos? According to wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorin_OS it's judt ubuntu with gnome 3 or xfce 4.
I hope we can separate the DE from the OS some day
It's a very beginner-friendly distro, similar in goals to Linux Mint but more modern. It's stable, comes pre-installed with graphics drivers and important apps like Wine, a custom clean version of Gnome or XFCE, and having a lot of UX improvements like explaining what Wine is the first time you open an exe file, and providing popular alternatives for the app you're trying to install.
There's nothing brand new about it, it's just really solid and I do recommend it as people's first distro.
Second this. Zorin OS, and Mandriva Linux (before they went bankrupt, and the community picked up development) were my first exposure to Linux over a decade ago, and the ux familiarity really helps a ton.
A lot of the other distros had funny stuff going on with multiple docks, open apps showing in the top dock, others looked like a Stardock Special and it was just a little confusing for younger me lol
This was the first I’d heard of it and from my first impression it seemed like it could be a solid beginner distributor.
Glad to see you do recommend it to beginners. This would probably be easier for my partner to get into compared to Pop!_OS (I’ll be testing this soon though!)
I hope we can separate the DE from the OS some day
We had that from the beginning of X. It could abstract nicely from all unices and even a little M$.
That era ended (unintentionally) with the dawn of KDE and GNOME, and I'm afraid it won't come back with Wayland.
Does it ended? On all distros I know of, Fedora, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, we can swap the desktop environments like gloves. The only exception being immutable things like Fedora Kionite, but they are made to be untouchable and for specific users.
Wayland does not change anything there, only that the desktops with less developers must take more time to adapt. What makes desktop interoperable are FreeDesktop standards, which are now in full swing to Wayland.
Yeah I really don't know what they mean, in the past couple months I've used Plasma, Gnome, NsCDE, i3, Sway, Hyprland, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, Mate, Trinity, Xfce, and probably others I forgot
Shit 😔
Something didn't work they way you wanted it to work? Or not a fan of Gnome?