First impressions trying (and failing) to move from Win10

[zenzen]

At least you tried, kudos to you for that. Although I certainly would've liked that you asked here first to see if we could've helped you out.

@janpieter

It seems there is no Samba installed.

@janpieter

Wait, it says I can right-click on a folder to enable Local sharing. But that option doesn´t even exist

Samba is not installed, but the file manager has its own implementation for establishing network shares. This is both good and bad. One the one hand, this can be confusing because the option to create a network share will not appear if you right-click a folder directly on the desktop:

But if you do the same through the file explorer, it will give you that option:

On the other hand, it requires no configuration or anything.

@janpieter

Although ZorinOS looks great, it's still not ready for the average Windows user, unless that user has some Linux-savvy friend who sets it all up for him, or unless that user enjoys spending hours browsing online forums to look for answers.

If you think Windows is free of this type of nonsense, let me share my experience setting up Windows 10 after years of successfully doing the same with Linux:

Appreciation for ZorinOS and open source in general

Recently, I had to setup a laptop for someone. Despite my best intentions, we ended up settling for Windows 11 instead of some flavor of Linux for several reasons. I've used W10 and W11 before, but I've never had to install them myself. My verdict: I honestly cannot believe how a company valued in the trillions of dollars can be so negligent with their flagship product. For one, there were no Wi-Fi drivers to begin with; we didn’t happen to have another computer to download them, so that alone…