Distrowatch Review on Zorin 16

Yep, I've tried Zorin OS, Feren OS, Makulu Lindoz, POP OS. I've literally been using Zorin OS the longest out of all of them. I had a good nearly 1-year run with POP OS. But I had issues that I just got tired of dealing with.

And you know what? System76 provides no easy place to provide them feedback on POP OS. They have this Mattermost chatroom BS that they use, that works until your locked out of your account for whatever reason, then you have no way of providing feedback.

So, I had no way of letting them know the issues I was having to get them corrected. So I was stuck with the issues I had until I tried to fix it, and then I caused catastrophic failure of my installation.

So, this is what returned me back to Zorin OS, the OS that I have been using since OS 9. And you know what? I don't have one of the major issues that I had with POP OS. My keyboard works perfectly after login each time on Zorin OS, and I have had a few restarts in the past on this OS, and no issues.

So whatever Zorin OS is doing, its doing it better then POP OS when it comes to my fancy Corsair K95 keyboard. I love Zorin OS, it just works. The only thing I don't like, its not even Zorin OS's fault man, its Gnome.

Gnome is a serious resource hog. So, I am waiting for OS 16 LITE. Once I get that installed, I am sure I will be seeing a lot less resource usage lol.


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