Here is one of the best explanations of the Linux system I have ever read ...... wish I had found this when I first started using Linux .....
It likens the Linux system to a car ...... great read
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I have bookmarked your post so it can be pointed to when new users lament the choices and diversity in GnuLinux. This writing is not only a great read - it is excellent and really clarifies a great deal that almost any reader can easily relate to.
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Really very well explained and helps to understand that not every distro is for everyone. Everyone has to find the distro they like. 
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One of the things I have always respected about the Zorin Forum since I first joined was that it is not an exclusive club.
Members may praise Zorin OS and they may criticize it. Because as a product, it is worthy of praise and of critical feedback.
Members ensure that everyone feels comfortable using any distro they like, even recommending many others, many options, many ways of accomplishing goals. There is no gatekeeping and 'brand loyalty' is not equated to cliquishness.
Any person that joins looking for help with Zorin OS that later ditrohops away is never left feeling abandoned.
I wish I had not said that now, because my brain instantly produced a disturbing image of penguins with bunny ears frolicking in a snow covered grassy field...
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First thing i noticed when i joined is how friendly this forum is. Back in 2013 or 2014 i used the mint forum and i can tell you the support was terrible and the forum was not as friendly for newcomers back then. I had clevo machine from 2011 (Clevo P170HM) and wanted to switch to linux (because i disliked windows 8/8.1). I used Linux Mint 17.3 with cinnamon. I liked everything about cinnamon, felt in love with it. But what i did not like was the random desktop freezes. As a newbie i asked on the forum what the issue could be, first thing they asked “do you have nvidia”. Yeah i do a GTX 485m. The reply was “you should get a ati card for linux, nvidia sucks”. No solution, so command lines to try. So after a few months of freezings and so on i decided to go back to Windows 7.
I did try Manjaro too before mint and it ran great too but not really my thing. As last, i tried Arch. Read the wiki’s and i did had it installed on the desktop…great journey but boy those command lines haha.
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Very nice found.
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Clearly, I was mistaken as to when you began your GnuLinux journey. Not to detract from your fast learning, but it seems I was nowhere near GnuLinux when you started yours. In '11 and still in '14, I was still on Windows only.
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Well you where actually. The journey back then was less the 6 months.
My new wallpaper...
Apparently, you have artistic talent.
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Oh god no. I can't draw a stick figure given a ruler. That's Flux.1. In retrospect I should've checked the statement on the forum about Chat-GPT, which I don't use, to see if there were rules about image generation, so apologies if this runs afoul of the forum's rules.
It does not.
Active members using tools and utilities falls under ordinary use.
What is barred is using ChatGPT or other A.I to generate automated posts, to provide troubleshooting without informing the reader that it is A.I. generated or claiming A.I. as your own work (Or other peoples work as your own work.)
What is discouraged is using ChatGPT or other A.I. to exclusively troubleshoot without using references, knowledgeable and experienced resources or without vetting its responses. It should be used with caution.
The trouble with either comes down to
- Spam: Spammers creating fake content and posts.
- Live members engaging in plagiarism, or misleading content or unoriginal content.
Your post does not fall into any of that. And Moderator @Storm posts a lot of A.I. generated wallpapers.
I have been testing A.I. image generation myself, for use in crafting specific images that I can then dissect and transform into new images using editors.
Do you run locally? Come winter, a large enough batch makes the computer provide a nice warm spot. <_<
I've mentioned my hatred for math. I discontinued all use of LLMs for getting any kind of answer after asking Chat-GPT 3 a question about dice probability, getting an answer that rang false even to me, and taking it to a more numerically inclined friend to disprove. LLMs are now strictly toys to me.
To underail the thread some, the origin of that link in the OP, It's FOSS is a useful resource generally. I keep its RSS feed on my homepage; they often report releases I care about before the service notifies me. See: Zorin 17.2, every single Proton (Mail/VPN/Drive/etc., not Valve's compatibility layer) feature.
Oh no, I asked Storm what he used and he suggested DreamUp - which is extended on DeviantArt. You get a limited number of free prompts. But for me, creating an archway image or a robot articulated joint image that I then alter or modify from that as a base into something else using Gimp, Pinta or in Blender (for other effects) allows me to start with a complex image as a base instead of creating a complex image from scratch. This allows me to get things done faster without run-on sentences.
The trouble with ChatGPT is not that it is wrong or right - I can be wrong or right. It is the confidence in which in gives an answer and it does not say "I do not know."
This confidence is what gets people to trust it - and there is the big problem.