not sure how to see that. Just bought it last month.
I bought my latest 2022 model (Dell XPS 15 9520) just 2 months ago.
You say your laptop was brand new, so I assume it's brand new condition, right?
yes - should be!
Sorry Harvey. I can only plead ignorance of this forum's set up. Slowly, and with the great assistance of the 'staff' here, I am settling in. Dear Al helped me to find out how to move a thread to proper category instead of creating another.
Yes, I know there is every possibility for something to become a problem - however with all the time & money I have spent on making preparations to move on & be free from MS, it's far too late for me to give up now.
I've spent months considering which Linux distro to begin with and I happened to gladly end up here.
Yes, I am ready to go down the rabbit hole and learn something on the way.
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Yes there are plenty of 'helpful' links here. The difficulty I have is that its too easy to get overwhelmed with new information. Its hard to be a newbie and while rules are meant to be helpful, they also can be intimidating and cumbersome? I have participated in forums before, but each one does have different formats and ability to maneuver posts. (I am a long time moderator at one forum and have come to learn that newbies can and will do things their own wayS.)
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While this is a very oft repeated phrase, its not entirely accurate - yes death is 'guaranteed', but taxes are a man made invention - plenty of which can be avoided 
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The 'poor' pay no taxes (other than inflation $ucking them dry). Learned to live 'legal poverty' style years back!
[PS the folk in Canada and all 'americas' south of U$$A border could take exception with claiming that title???
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Lets not forget the Lottery - the 'voluntary' tax on both the poor & working class.
Not for spoiling the party, but the 'brand new generation' of laptops or notebooks have persistent files for and from W 11. I read an article along the line that Windows is more and more evolving to unique limited W hardware only. A lot has to do with the new generations of NVMe's ..... So, it just might be that an install of any Linux is warranted on the 'next generation' hardware. I lost the link of that article and the site that shares it. But maybe you'll have to keep it in mind as well. (BIOS-burn, TPM 2.0 -limits, and motherboard restrictions -- if I recall well)
If Zorin OS is truly free & open source, then it should work on just about any hard drive or computer device - no matter how new or old it is...
A fine is a tax on doing bad while a tax is a fine for doing good.
You have to remember that whilst GNU/Linux is Free Software and covered under Copy Left GPL, Hardware isn't and if M$ can't get hardware manufacturer's to play ball, then they have two options - refuse to provide the Windows OS to the manufacturer (Yay! I can hear you all cry) or increase the premium of having Windows present on the hardware (OEM licence fee). The best story I ever read in a Linux Magazine was a guy from Oz who successfully sued Toshiba for failing to supply hardware without Windows being installed!
Well even if MS does not provide Windows OS to a computer manufacturer, how exactly would that affect a Linux user anyways?
Computer manufacturers don't want to struggle compiling hardware for GNU/Linux. If you want to ensure you have a machine that runs GNU/Linux it is best to either pay a premium to a dedicated purveyor of GNU/Linux hardware or if Desktop, build your own which would be cheaper depending on configuration.
Try Zorin - Boots you into a live desktop environment that you can play around to test your hardware and see if you like the operating system
Install Zorin - does exactly that installs the operating system to disc either alongside a operating system or wiping the whole disc depending on user settings
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I'm having issues with the right click options, it was working ok while I was trying out Zorin but not after installing it as my OS.
What can I do to resolve this issue?
Did you do all the pre-installation checks suggested here:
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I already done all this but still its not working...
As you have Core (Gnome), if you mean right click options under Files (Nautilus), then I wonder if anything here may help you: "New File" gone from right click menu