I've been reading numerous issues of late regarding big issues with Z18. This is by no means a fault of Zorin but Gnome. I would not be able to cope with the headache of clients getting stressed out on the suspend/screenlock issue.
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I wouldn't recommend Zorin 18 with Gnome desktop to anyone who depends on their computer working. Even my Live USB stick with Zorin 18 crashes almost every day and I have to hard shut down the computer. It is a really frustrating experience with Gnome on Zorin 18 at the moment - and no real solution has been found yet for this problem with the Gnome session crashing (it happens also with no third-party gnome extensions installed and using Xorg or Wayland).
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As I have stated elsewhere, a lot of current Zorin extensions are present which help create the look and feel. They need to drop Gnome and look at a more stable, customisable DE that is easy for Windows migrators to manage. Gnome is in self-destruction mode.
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I can - fortunately - say that I don't have these Problems. But to be fair: I don't need any special Programs and I don't play on PC. So, that makes it less risky. I don't even need to switch to Xorg.
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A client I installed LMDE 7 on also didn't play games and I did not dare risk putting Zorin 18 on it following an issue with a forum poster on a Notebook with 4 Gb RAM.
It's been a fun and wild ride. I will be moving the Zorin 18 Manuals to Internet Archive and then deleting my stuff from murena.io. It is time to finally move on to pastures new ... while I still can.
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The nature of GNOME is that the less modifications you make to it, or rather – the more aligning to developers' vision you use it, the more stable it gets.
I learned it hard way once I installed GNOME on Arch and started to customise it my way.
As for Zorin, I never had issues with GNOME itself – I guess the process of testing is more thorough on Zorin than Arch.
Cinnamon or COSMIC, once the latter gets more mature.
Not wanting to spark a DE war on another forum, but my personal experiences with Plasma don't make it a reliable option.
It would be nice to get a response from the Zorin OS developers on this issue but so far they have been radio silence.
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You have just highlighted the issue with GNU/Linux generally because we are using hardware built for that other OS. It appears people like Chris Titus and Nick from 'thelinuxexperiment' have no such issues with their notebooks running Plasma.
Sadly, I don't think we're gonna hear from them. Their favorite animal must be the ostrich, because like the ostrich, they like to stick their heads in the sand and refuse to confront legitimate, valid criticisms/feedback head-on.
P.S.: I know ostriches really don't put their head in the sand; it's a myth, but still.