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Do I dare say it 🥺 (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 days ago (30 children)

So I've mucked around with ubuntu... gonna switch over to linux. Ideally something more user friendly at first.

Can someone TLDR Zorin OS vs Mint?

For now I just want something I can swap out my main device until I have more time to finish learning ubuntu.

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Zorin has a commercial license for additional GUI front ends, installation support, and a bunch of "professional" apps. It's not clear if they've done something to make adobe/Autodesk/pro audio stuff work on Linux, pre-bundled their FOSS alternatives, or have made software themselves.

Personally, if I was looking for something "professional", I'd go PopOS!. But if I were a small or mid-sized business I'd consider Zorin Pro if I could get license to include additional support outside the installer... Or just buy System76 computers with PopOS! pre-installed and support built-in to their sales pipeline already.

That said, Mint is also very Windows (classic)-like in their GUI experince (intentionally). It also has one of the largest Linux communities focusing on GUI usability.

Depends on your use case on which flavor you should go. But for $50, I'm curious what Zorin's software suite is and might dive in.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Or just buy System76 computers with PopOS! pre-installed and support built-in to their sales pipeline already.

S76 (and all Linux PCs) are all just insanely expensive and overpowered for the needs of most people. I wish they would just offer a barebones model with an N100 or something for $500 that normal people could afford...

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 5 days ago

You can buy nearly any budget machine and load Linux off a USB stick, but most people just take whatever they have and their last windows action is to download a boot image and write it to a USB stick, then boot off the stick and tell it to use the whole disk

Then use your backup system to restore your documents, pictures, web and mail configuration, and game settings and saves to your Linux machine

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