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Zorin OS 18 was released on October 14. Just 48 hours later, the team announced it had already been downloaded 100K times. Now, a month later, they’re reporting an even bigger milestone: Zorin OS 18 has surpassed 1M downloads in its first month.

“We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records.”

In fact, it would be great to see more Linux distributions adopt this practice and share their download numbers. That alone would give us a much clearer sense of how widely each one is used, since the Linux community still doesn’t have a reliable way to measure the popularity of individual distros.

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[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Download numbers don’t show how many active users they have though.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago

But that at least shows some people are in search to possibly replace Windows.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I've tried Zorin. It's a very freemium model. Also upgrading doesn't seem to work reliably.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 1 points 46 minutes ago

I don't trust an OS named after a Bond villain.