Hello....
I am a very old person and very new to Linux (although I used to use it way back in the day when I worked for AT&T - yes, the Evil Empire whose logo is a Death Star - as a deployment manager). These days, consider me the Village Idiot of Technology.
I had an old Lenovo Legion whose Windows OS stopped working and I was unwilling to pay tons of money to get it fixed. Out of warranty and all that jazz. I decided to resurrect it using Linux and put it out in my reptile room to use mainly for tracking my snakes' health and feeding as well as keeping track of the feeders we raise and sell.
I installed Zorin Pro last night and all seems to be operating just fine. I've installed a couple of apps that I need. My reptile tracking app is browser based so that was a breeze.
I am still on Windows on my newest laptop, but really do NOT want Windows on this one, but I do need to share document files and images between the two.
Best recommendation for an app solution for file syncing and backup for that? I don't mind paying a reasonable price, but could use ones with a free trial period. I'd just rather ditch OneDrive at some point and ditch my Microsoft outrageously expensive subscription altogether...
Also - I am clueless on graphics and all that (not a gamer).
Should I be looking at a better driver than what's auto-installed with the Zorin Pro 18.1 OS?
Here's my system's info...
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Date generated:
2026-05-02 13:31:51
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- Intel® Core™ i7-9750H × 12
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- Intel® UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)
Graphics 1:
- zink Vulkan 1.4(NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (NVK TU116))
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Thanks in advance for any and all help.
well the driver for the intel is in the kernel so that one is ok its the nvidia i was using the 1650 and had the 570 server one in list checked marked and it worked fine but not in wayland needs to be in xorg
to do that log out then click area to log in and at bottom ring choose Zorin on desktop xorg and see if that helps get the nvidia working
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as pretaining to other question maybe another may have an answer for ya as ive never done that
Hi @Stormwolfe and congrats for your successful install of Zorin OS!
As a file-transfer program between windows and Linux, I would personally recommend Dropbox, you can get 2 Gb with the free version, and it works fine on both platforms (I am currently using it on several Win 10 and Zorin OS computers). You can find it in the software app in Zorin OS. It's just a program to synchronise files, it doesn't automatically do backups or anything like that.
Good luck!
For backups I recommend you purchase something like WD Elements - the size of the External drive will depend on how large your hard drive is. For a complete system backup I recommend Rescuezilla.
On a regular basis (how regular is down to how often you need to backup critical data) I would backup your /home folder manually to the external drive, remembering to press Ctrl+ H to view hidden files as these files contain your application settings:
Just create a new folder on your external drive and label it however you want, such as Home followed by date.
For recovery of the system should you suffer a borked system I recommend you install Timeshift. When installing any GNU/Linux OS I usually create a separate 'root' partition ('/') and a separate home partition ('/home'). Home folder is always usually your biggest partition and I save Timeshift snapshots in the /home folder.
You can use your external drive if you prefer, but you must make sure the drive or partition that you use for snapshots is formatted to the same File System as Zorin, the default being Ext4 FS. I also reduce the number of daily snapshots from the default 5 to 3.
