If you were a developer on the Zorin OS team for one day, what would you change?

[Ponce-De-Leon]

@ItsMina

Replace brave with firefox and evolution with thunderbird.

Firefox was the Default but the Dev's decide to switch to Brave because of Mozilla's changing Terms of Use:

The Buzz around Mozilla's New Terms of Use

In light of this controversy, we've taken some time to revisit the default browser choice in Zorin OS. Because of Mozilla's policy changes and the new Terms of Use for Firefox, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to privacy. As a result, we're open to changing the default browser in Zorin OS 17.3 onward if this issue isn't sufficiently addressed. When looking for an alternative, we have the following requirements for a new potential default web browser: A genera…

The Buzz around Mozilla's New Terms of Use

Since I emailed the contact in Mozilla 10 days ago I haven't received any response yet. I bumped the email thread today in case they plan to reply, but we're 99% sure that we'll be switching to Brave as the default web browser, unless Mozilla publicly reconsiders their recent policy changes. Please note that this change of default web browser would only take effect in new installations of Zorin OS 17.3 and beyond. Existing Zorin OS users will keep their existing browser, but can install Brave f…

@ItsMina

Adopt minimal install option from ubuntu

This is available in the Pro Version of Zorin.

@ItsMina

evolution with thunderbird.

The Thunderbird Situation is a bit complex because of the Ubuntu Base waht Zorin uses. these is no APT Packages available what could be installed by default. The only Alternatives would be Snap or Flatpak.