If Zorin did not exist which distro are you switching to?

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Do you have an open thread on this?

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I honestly can not ever imagine leaving Zorin, it does exactly what I want out of a system.

But at one point during the Unity interface I would have said the same about Ubuntu. But stock Ubuntu has not been the same to me since they made that change

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Pretty sure they have ISOs where you can. If you want to Google for it

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/

Pretty sure the Krypton ones are live Tumbleweed

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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:

Main:

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Way back when SuSE was version 6.2, I would be with SuSE now. I haven't had the opportunity to use Linux as I have now, I just remember the ease with how everything on the 6 cd-roms installed.

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Sometimes which linux distributions people using is a software what exist there.
For me is most important also compatibility hardware with distribution what working without problems.
So the question topic is if Zorin brothers jump to bigger a company Canonical or another a "linux company"? Sometimes devs changing a position where are they. That question in topic is interesting to take a backup things or stuff on hard disk if they would like changing a side.

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I've been distrohopping a lot, and been on like every distro out there, but at the moment I would probably switch to the new Debian 12 or even Debian testing, or openSUSE Tumbleweed.
Debian is just solid and the new release has very up to date packages. I might even go as far and say the upcoming new Zorin OS should use Debian 12 as a base instead of Ubuntu 22.04, since Kernel version, Gnome Version, etc. are newer.
openSUSE is apart from Debian of one the most solid distros I've tried, and Tumbleweed probably the most stable rolling release. It's great. And package availabilty is awesome. Better than Debian's if you consider OBS and ignore PPAs.
I might run Arch or Arcolinux every now and then, because it's so light and fast, but I keep ditching them, because it some point they just will provide headaches, just a matter of time.
There are Mint and Pop of course, but both cosmic and cinnamon desktop environments give me eye cancer. I am a Gnome person through and through, and basically cannot live without Gnome's overview/search function. If Zorin ever move away from Gnome, I will be force to move away from Zorin and find something else like Debian or openSUSE

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What exactly don't you like about Cosmic? I'm surprised since it's very similar to Gnome in many aspects, just with a little touch of their own.

I for one am waiting patiently for System76 to release the new version of Cosmic, I guess it should be ready for the next release of PopOS with Ubuntu 24.04.

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I HATE HATE HATE Cosmic as well. Probably the worst desktop experience of any major distro.

It can be changed but if you do I would say you probably shouldn’t be on Pop lol

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I just reviewed a Live Demo of Debian 12 yesterday, so I find this post very helpful.
And Yes, Debian 12 is surprisingly very new all across the board.

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I wondered about this myself. It seem they have changed their goals a touch with the project.

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Perhaps. This warrants further study.

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They definitely did by making non-free packages being installed by default new normal. But it really is surprising how recent the packages are. It is like Ubuntu 22.10-23.04 new

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Even that is not fully complete. Many users will still need to install some non-free items.

Perhaps the very recent packages are more stable than might be expected. Or perhaps Debian wanted a most up to date starting point for 12. After-all, while Debians focus is on Stability, 12 is their Most Recent Release. And every fresh new release cannot boast perfect stability.

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I am actually more interested in Debian since the packages aren’t absolutely ancient like they typically are. But I couldn’t use my Zorin theme on it :frowning: lol.

Thanks Gnome devs. They claim this will make things easier in the long run. They better not do something like this again because I hate to tell them the default Gnome theme is HIDEOUS (imo at least)

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Yes, you can if using a non-Gnome D.E. like XFCE.
https://launchpad.net/~zorinos/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+files/zorin-desktop-themes_2.1.5_all.deb
If using Cinnamon, you can use Zenith:
https://launchpad.net/~aravisian/+archive/ubuntu/gtk-theming/+sourcepub/13199377/+listing-archive-extra

(The full list includes red, orange, purple, grey etc)

Zenith is the ZorinOS Style themes for Cinnamon D.E.

And the Icon Themes:
https://launchpad.net/~zorinos/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+files/zorin-icon-themes_2.9.13_all.deb

The Zorin Themes are not yet fully formatted for GTK4 - Gnome4+

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I’m actually not sure what I prefer between Cinnamon and XFCE. That is very close for me.

Probably just going to wait until Zorin 17 though as I have been using a stock Gnome interface lately.

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