I am 78 years old. My first computer was an Intel 286 running dos 3.1 back in 1988. I believe my first Wsindows was ikn 1993 Windows 3.1 and was stuck with Windows for over 3 decades. Over those years I became more and more dissatisfied, upset with, angered and disgusted with Microsoft and Windows for a plethora of reasons. A few years ago I started fooling around with Linux in my spare time. I distro hopped several Linux distros over that time. I found some little or big thing I in every one that kept me from using Linux as my every day machine. Until Zorin! Zorin does everything I need an operating system to do and does it well. Today I have one desktop and two laptops running Zorin Core 17.3. I keep one Windows desktop only for using Turbotax which I have used for decades. It doesn’t run very well using Wine so keeping my one Windows machine is the easiest answer. Today I am anxiously looking forward to Zorin 18 and when it comes out I will buy the pro version. I really do not need all pro has to offer but I just want to say thank you to Artyom and Krilll and show my support and gratitude for what they have done.
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Same here. I've stopped tinkering with my 17.3 installs because some I will want to wipe and start new so sort of in limbo at the moment on tinkering.
Have you considered running Windows in a VM to use that one piece of software (Turbotax)?
WinBoat could be useful for running Windows Apps as it uses a full VM, but still allows apps to integrate into the Linux desktop (kinda like WSL on Windows), and apps that do not work on Wine might work better on WinBoat.
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