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1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by mips_avatar »

lousken wrote: post #96
mips_avatar wrote: post #88

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I think the toughest thing for me has been watching my former coworkers on Windows transform from technology loving builders into depressed cynics. Like these were some of the most brilliant people I knew and now they struggle to get out of bed.

100% agree, I still can't believe how fast windows is deteriorating. With that said, Linux and Debian helped me a lot. I enjoy tech again. With windows I hated 95% of changes, with linux it is the exact opposite. Having some experience since Ubuntu 12.04, it's amazing to see the progress especially of the last 5 years.

As someone who used to make tools for Windows admins I apologize for not doing more to make your life better.

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by DANmode »

mips_avatar wrote: post #260
DANmode wrote: post #218

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This may be reversed correlation. People I’ve known with deteriorating health lost their interest in tech beyond familiar point A to point B.

My coworkers who left Microsoft started doing a lot better once they left, it's a bad place to be right now.

I misread your comment - I thought you meant devs running Windows as their OS!

Not developing it.

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by jimbo808 »

HumanOstrich wrote: post #119
jimbo808 wrote: post #13

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In the past it made more sense to have a shitty webpage because open source projects don't tend to have graphic designers contributing to them, but anyone can AI a decent looking static site these days, so it wouldn't surprise me if some of those open source maintainers start choosing to use them.

"AI" isn't a verb, and most people don't care to cargo-cult their designs just to appease other members of the cult.

Some people appreciate a nice looking site, they just didn’t have time to spend making it look nice. Now those people have the option of doing that without a huge time commitment, so undoubtedly some of them will.

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by nacozarina »

intrasight wrote: post #125
cons0le wrote: post #113

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I fired up my 10yrs old windows 7 PC for the first time in forever and was appalled at how snappy and quick the OS was compared to my same spec win10 PC. As a career primarily-microsoft-shop engineer I'm done with windows for personal use. I'll never forgive the for wasting everyones time with this garbage. Meanwhile I constantly find bugs from before 2002 that are still in windows10. Windows honestly made me slowly…

Windows 7 was peak windows

Win7 desktops with W2008 backend was a solid platform with robust ecosystem

They blew it all up with Longhorn/Metro, and have been doubling-down on denial ever since.

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by mips_avatar »

DANmode wrote: post #262
mips_avatar wrote: post #260

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My coworkers who left Microsoft started doing a lot better once they left, it's a bad place to be right now.

I misread your comment - I thought you meant devs running Windows as their OS! Not developing it.

Ah yes running Windows only makes you a little more depressed

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by laxd »

carlosjobim wrote: post #227
laxd wrote: post #108

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> Part of the issue is that computers today require no deep knowledge to use, unlike first or second generation PCs that genX and millennials grew up with. A point that I've often tried to convey among friends and family. No! Todays kids aren't natural tech wizards because they grew into it. All they know is pressing buttons where the UI/UX norms are good enough that you'll figure it out quickly, especially as a kid.…

> Later, in the 90's with your family PC, you were bound to learn some stuff just by wanting to play games. Drivers? Filesystem? Patches? Cracks? OS? Hardware components (you'd not unlikely put it together yourself). We learned all that, but that knowledge is all but worthless and has been for some time. I wish I had learned programming instead. All these other computing and OS skills become unnecessary as time moves…

Absolutely not. These are fundamental concepts in our computer world and a step on the latter towards becoming a programmer or sysadmin.

Re: 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

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Post by wltr »

stonogo wrote: post #258
fau wrote: post #181

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Presumably because a good portion of the target audience are less technical users, and there's no reason to be throwing extra (ex-)initialisms at them. "Zorin Connect" is clearly something that will connect my Zorin OS to something . "KDE Connect" is something that might perhaps connect me to a "KDE", but what's a "KDE" anyway and why would I ever need to connect to it?

On the other hand, you've now made it one step harder for people to find the documentation.

So that’s how you’re getting dependent on them even more. So probably you need the pro version with the paid support.

Stealing credit was the definitive factor for me, I wanted to try it recently for replacing Windows for some folks, but now I think I’d just go with immutable Fedora.

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