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Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by coding123 »

Santosh83 wrote: post #9
qnsi wrote: post #5

The site seems to load extremely slowly for me, but the web archive version doesnt show me a lot of benefits. Can someone share why would I use it over mac? And if privacy is main seller why use it over linux?

It is Linux. Seems to be a direct competitor to ElementaryOS. If you already have a mac then no reason. And those who want a mac at all costs will not settle for anything less. This OS is for those who want a polished, cohesive, user-focused Linux-based OS. All these alternatives arose after Ubuntu dropped the ball in the desktop-laptop OS space and decided to focus on server and cloud more or less exclusively. Most…

I mean if you have a mac and love Linux also (like me) there's always a reason or two to go back to Linux. It may not be as polished as Mac, but there are also things that a Mac isn't polished with (for example a native package manager).

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by grumpyprole »

peakaboo wrote: post #10
grumpyprole wrote: post #6

IMHO, this is a great example of what a Gnome desktop should be like, at least by default. The rest of my family might actually be able (and willing) to use this.

Zorin is based on KDE, a Linux desktop environment. Typically looks like Windows but here they have put effort into making it look nicer.

Do you have a reference? The screenshots look like Gnome.

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by onemoresoop »

Santosh83 wrote: post #9
qnsi wrote: post #5

The site seems to load extremely slowly for me, but the web archive version doesnt show me a lot of benefits. Can someone share why would I use it over mac? And if privacy is main seller why use it over linux?

It is Linux. Seems to be a direct competitor to ElementaryOS. If you already have a mac then no reason. And those who want a mac at all costs will not settle for anything less. This OS is for those who want a polished, cohesive, user-focused Linux-based OS. All these alternatives arose after Ubuntu dropped the ball in the desktop-laptop OS space and decided to focus on server and cloud more or less exclusively. Most…

Is Ubuntu desktop being deprecated or something? That would be sad news, I really like how Ubuntu works out of the box

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by KeyBoardG »

grumpyprole wrote: post #12
peakaboo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zorin is based on KDE, a Linux desktop environment. Typically looks like Windows but here they have put effort into making it look nicer.

Do you have a reference? The screenshots look like Gnome.

It is built on Gnome (3.38). The Zorin taskbar looks based on the Dash To Panel extension. Zorin ships with Gnome or XFCE for the light edition. There is no KDE spin.

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by Mikeb85 »

onemoresoop wrote: post #13
Santosh83 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is Linux. Seems to be a direct competitor to ElementaryOS. If you already have a mac then no reason. And those who want a mac at all costs will not settle for anything less. This OS is for those who want a polished, cohesive, user-focused Linux-based OS. All these alternatives arose after Ubuntu dropped the ball in the desktop-laptop OS space and decided to focus on server and cloud more or less exclusively. Most…

Is Ubuntu desktop being deprecated or something? That would be sad news, I really like how Ubuntu works out of the box

No, it's not. Some people are just annoyed that Ubuntu stopped trying to be MacOS and is now into enterprise and cloud things to make money.

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by smspillaz »

chrismorgan wrote: post #17
arpa wrote: post #3

jelly mode made me long for beryl again

Ah, fond memories of Compiz with Wobbly Windows. Wonder how they’ve done it here, whether it’s resurrected Compiz stuff or implemented the same concepts from scratch.

From the looks of it, they're leveraging a fork of a library I ported from Compiz a few years ago (called libanimation). I'm quite happy to see this, as I thought it was a dead end and wouldn't get any users, but it looks like its been very useful to this project and I'd be interested to see where the development is continuing so that I can help them out.
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