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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 soco »

Then it's finally time for my guests laptop yearly update. Until now I always hated the exercise - no real way to upgrade just wiping everything out, dangling update sites in the settings which throw error popups, three different package managers which seem to do exactly the same thing... I start with low expectations.

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by chrismorgan »

smspillaz wrote: post #19
chrismorgan wrote: post #17

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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.

Wobbly windows is such a truly excellent feature; I really don’t understand why more platforms (most significantly Windows and macOS) don’t go with it, even if more restrained (Zorin’s jelly looks a bit too loose for my liking). They make the entire experience much more tactile and make windows all round much nicer to work with.

(For my part, I now use tiling window managers, where wobbly windows won’t work well except for floating windows. But on all-floating window managers—)

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by onemoresoop »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #18
onemoresoop wrote: post #13

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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.

I think I'll make some small donation to Ubuntu to show them some appreciation. I am new to Linux. I attempted to install Linux in the past and got stuck somewhere and was either unwilling to or didn't have time to proceed to a full install. About a year ago I got mad with windows and gave Ubuntu a try and loved it from he first try. It installed flawlessly on a couple of machines(laptops) and could even tether from my Iphone through USB. Was quite impressed. I don't really need crazy features but a stable and snappy machine that Im in control of and Ubuntu can deliver that for me. I recently installed a live Ubuntu with persistent storage on small stick on my work's machine. When I sign off my work day I restart with the live image and the machine isn't impacted at all. Beside the booting time which is a bit slow (from the stick) the OS behaves absolutely fantastic, love it. I may now be inclined to try other Linux distributions, now that I've been warming up to Linux for the past 12 months but Ubuntu is quite a keeper. I converted my wife computer from windows to Ubuntu and she seems quite happy as well. Automatic updates and nagging popups were some complaints from her and on Ubuntu she had none. I wish hibernate mode worked but Im by far happier with Ubuntu even without it.

Re: Zorin OS 16 is Released

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Post by dxxvi »

Is it faster than Windows 10? Does it use less memory than Windows 10? Does it use less hard disk than Windows 10? Does it display fonts more clearly, more smoothly than Windows 10?
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