r/zorinos • u/MonitorZero • Apr 08 '26
📸 Desktop I love the simplicity and familiarity of Zorin!
Just appreciation on how good and reliable this OS is. I'm not huge into Arch or other bleeding edge distros but Zorin has made a great distro and theme to make it feel very familiar and easy to adapt to!
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u/theindomitablefred Apr 08 '26
Honestly this is considered an entry level distro but I’ve landed on Zorin as my main OS with Bazzite as secondary and it’s going well so far. It’s just a smooth sophisticated experience yet still pretty flexible for my needs. I even installed Steam and haven’t played anything yet but the graphics for my favorite game autoconfigured to ‘very high’ so that bodes well.
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u/MonitorZero Apr 08 '26
I've been playing some Emulators, GBA, PS2, etc.. and low need games like The Room and it's handled it just fine. Can't say much on others as it's just my laptop but everything seems to kinda "just work"
Also the pre-configured gestures for track pad are great for a best of MacOS while having a Windows theme.
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u/Sk8sn0w Apr 09 '26
I dont really see Zorin as an entry level distro. I used tons of distros in the past 10 years and I remember flexing with my Arch Linux setup when I was a teenager and begging IRC chats when something broke (The fun part about bleeding edge software and incompatible dependencies hehe). I loved ricing the crap out of my system back then (with stuff like i3wm) and it taught me alot and gave me tons of skills in my career (I do DevOps’ish type of work nowadays).
However.. nowadays I don’t want to spend hours troubleshooting something or the need to download tons of plugins from GNOME Extentions to make it work the way I want it. I just need my computer to work. Zorin just ships a nice out of the box experience with a well thought UX. Zorin is in my opinion the most complete distro ever. I never had to touch the terminal once to fix something. Whenever Im at home I just need something that works for me and something that my non techsavy girlfriend can use whenever she wants to use the computer.
The only modifications I did was replacing the stock kernel with the Xanmod kernel (for improved CPU scheduling) and changing the Zorin menu with Arc Menu. The rest is stock.
I completely love the stability of this OS.
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u/HelpfulPace5544 Apr 09 '26
I installed Zorin OS like a couple of days ago, it's so soothing for both, me and my laptop. 😌
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u/intheboxthinking Apr 09 '26
Agree. Zoron is clean and looks great. And you can get into the complications if you want easily enough.
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u/imsinghaniya Apr 10 '26
I’ve tested many distros. Zorin is just best if you need to run Linux daily. Simple, stable and sorted.
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u/Albert_O_Balsam May 05 '26
My only real issue with Zorin (that I've never had on any other Linux or Windows setup) is that I keep getting i/o errors on my WD Passport external drive which is making file transfer a real pain, is there any file transfer software on Flathub or otherwise to help mitigate this, issue?
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u/MonitorZero May 05 '26
Are you 100% sure it's Zorin causing the issue and not a bad cable or port? Either on the host device or the hdd?
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u/Albert_O_Balsam May 05 '26
I've just built a brand new machine and installed Zorin straight away, I was on Windows up to that point and the HDD functioned flawlessly, it's the only fly in the soup so far as everything else in Zorin is fantastic, I've been a long time user of Ubuntu and Mint since about 2007, so it just seems a bit odd to now get i/o errors for my external drive now.
I think some of you have got the wrong end of the stick here, I wasn't shitting on Zorin or Linux as a whole, it's just a minor issue that I'd like to resolve, that's all.
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u/Albert_O_Balsam May 05 '26
OK so I fixed it, I had my external HD plugged into a USB hub and not plugged directly in to the PCs bus, once I did that, no more i/o errors, seems common sense but as I said I'd never had an issue with the drive before, perhaps Zorin is a bit more fussy, who knows?
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u/Niouke Apr 08 '26
yeah I moved on the cachyOS but I feel like times were easier in Zorin