Dell Inspiron 7400 laptop overheats when trying out Zorin from USB

If you are experiencing this in Zorin OS, you are likely to experience the same in other distros. If you do not, it is most likely that the Zorin Install had a corrupted file during installation.
You might try the tips outlined here:

If this is a New Notebook, heat sinks, thermal paste, etc. would not be my first guess.
Though if that fresh... I would actually do a complete reinstall of Zorin OS, then try the tips from the above article immediately after.

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