I know linux always had the problem of being unappealing to normal people, so I guess it's good folks are trying to make pretty websites for their distros, working on pretty and consistent themes, sane defaults, layman terms etc.<p>But does that mean you have to completely hide any technical information from your website? It maybe I'm just too dumb to find it?<p>What distro is that based on? Indirectly mentioned by saying the Ubuntu apt repo is available.<p>What's the DE based on? You certainly didn't create a new one. It looks like a reskinned KDE to me.<p>You mention how fast it is, and that the new release has been optimized for performance. How? Did you fork KDE, the kernel, or apply some clever configurations, or did you get that performance for free because upstream just optimized their code?
How is this different from installing Ubuntu and adding flatpack and your KDE theme?<p>Again, first impression is this is a great distro for my mom et al., but for a HN submission I ended up with more questions than answers.
Design is still massively under-appreciated. Airbnb, Airtable and Coinbase and Stripe massively succeeded, because of Design. And Zorin OS 16 is on the right track, but still: hire an excellent Designer to review the entire system again. Check margins, Branding, consistency of the entire system, and more.<p>Design makes all the difference and creates real business (and user experience) value.
Give me ZFS option in the installer, I will give it a go. Presently om Ubuntu because it has the best desktop experience with excellent ZFS support out of the box.
I really like it, especially the Inter font, which I think is much better than Cantarell. I hope the GNOME team decides to switch to it.<p>I remember installing Zorin back in 2016 after watching an ExplainingComputers video on it. Brings back the memories ...
Wow this looks beautiful. They have more details on why they charge for certain versions and what their overall goals are like at <a href="https://zorinos.com/download/why-pay/" rel="nofollow">https://zorinos.com/download/why-pay/</a><p>My one question is how security is upheld in what seems like a project maintained by a small number of people.
Just installed Zorin's lite version to an Aspire One with Atom CPU and 1gb of ram. Works like a dream for a machine that's ancient for our standards.
Some aspire specific tweaks were required but all in all replacing the mechanical disk with a SSD made it live again. The fact that it looks very similar to Windows makes it usable for non-Linux people.<p>So seeing on HN was a shock to me. Recommended for old hardware nonetheless!
Is it possible to put the cpu, memory usage, network speed (both in and out) in the bottom panel? It'll be great if the cpu&memory usage color can be customized, e.g. green if < threshold1, orange if from threshold1 to threshold2 and red if > threshold 2. Similar customization for the battery level.
Does anyone know why the Ultimate version found here: <a href="https://zorinos.com/ultimate/" rel="nofollow">https://zorinos.com/ultimate/</a> is on version 15 and not the new 16 version? Because I want Zorin to take my money for building such a great OS
"Undoubtedly the most groundbreaking and revolutionary feature we’ve ever included, Jelly Mode".<p>I seriously thought this was a joke. But after seeing the animation I was completely blown away! This is going to change how we interact with computers without a doubt. Wow.