Hi,
is there any insides about the planned release path? I compared older Zorin versions to the Ubuntu Base release dates:
Zorin Base | delay | waiting (buffer) |
---|---|---|
Zorin 12 (Ubuntu 16.04) | +7 months later | -17 months untill next LTS |
Zorin 15 (Ubuntu 18.04) | +14 months later | -10 months until next LTS |
Zorin 16 (Ubuntu 20.04) | +18 months later | -6 months until next LTS |
Zorin 17 (Ubuntu 22.04) | +20 months later | -4 months until next LTS |
Zorin 18 (?? if Ubu 24.04) | ?? +22 months later | ?? -2 months until next LTS |
So Zorin 17 can be a chance or a lost cause. At a point reliability and stability becomes a farce and it's more a server distro and not for daily use with modern hardware cause it becomes a hassle to migrate to stable versions, when the Ubuntu base repository is outdated.
Disclaimer im a fan and i hope they'll don't proceed like that cause it would be out of my usecase. The last 6 months i stick with POP_OS! cause Zorin 16 got to outdated for me and if i need to tinker with a distro to make it working i could stick with the mainline Ubu or even a rolling release distro.
Edit: So im eager to see if a Zorin 17.x version will migrate to Ubu 24.04.