Year of the Linux download!
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Zorin is a solid distro and is designed to appeal to Windows users.
Buuuut knowing what I know now I worry Zorin's simplicity could turn people off of Linux. Zorin is a good OS for your grandmother but the average person who would consider installing Linux wants to be able to tinker. Heck, I would consider the very act of changing your operating to be tinkering. Nobody accidentally stumbles installing Linux.
The options with Zorin are either use it as-is or risk breaking it. That's why I would personally recommend a KDE distro, probably something immutable like Fedora Kinoite. That way you can tinker to your heart's content with no fear of breaking it.
Nope; the average person wants to only customise/personalise, not tinker.
I'm suggesting this distro to friends and family moving off of windows and wanting to save money. They think using command line is too "extra".
Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It's been true for decades now.
So I've mucked around with ubuntu... gonna switch over to linux. Ideally something more user friendly at first.
Can someone TLDR Zorin OS vs Mint?
For now I just want something I can swap out my main device until I have more time to finish learning ubuntu.
Nyarchlinux is the Linux for you!
Honestly I downloaded it as a joke but it’s great
Is this a serious comment? Because I don’t see an /s
Is this a joke? Because I don't get it and nobody is explaining it to me
They’re recommending a meme-distro in a serious thread without making it clear that it’s a joke.
In this case someone might read their comment and follow their advice, thus ending up with Nyarch as their first distro. In the future, when they run into problems, they’ll have trouble finding support because it doesn’t have a massive knowledge-base or the support of a big community behind it like all the mainstream distros do.
It might be an obvious joke to a Linux user, but a total Linux newbie might get confused or not even recognise it as such. If this comment was posted in /c/linuxmemes or something I wouldn’t say anything, but it is not.
Did it three days ago. Took the windows partition out back and formatted it.
3 days ago?
They're not saying they went to Zorin, they're saying they went from windows to Linux recently.
They are right to be happy about it