KDE and Plasma are some rich with funcionality and more settings.
Yes XFCE in Zorin for me is more simplify from kde or plazma.
More flexible, more simple to customization.
I don't need a polishing icons or something.
The function is this is just simple and must working.
Isn't your life is simple if you know the things what you searching is in one click or installation?
I have witnessed this happen a couple of times during my time using Zorin OS and I wondered if it was my imagination.
Aside:
Zinc OS has changed its name (for now) to Asmi OS. This is due to Zinc apparently having already been used by someone else.
My main goto has been Antix 22. But still playing around with KDE Neon - it does have some good points - never had to install Canon printer drivers - even gives accurate print levels and kernel is the latest. Devuan 3.x.x still a firm favourite. Didn't like 4.0 as would not pick up second monitor but my old Amiga 1500 is currently in its place.
From a lightweight KDE perspective I really like MX-Linux 23.1 KDE. KDE (as I think Gnome does too but not sure) allows you to change the default font across the entire system. My eldest has Lupus and on an old Dell E6500 it has said MX-Linux KDE - Comic Sans is the default font and whilst the preference is for 14 point font it certainly does not look 14 pt on the notebook so increased this to 16 points across the board, SoftMaker Office set to Black theme with Black paper and white font, Comic Sans default there. Same with Evolution - All comic sans, Black Paper white font which is what they cope with best. I still participate in the Vision Impairment Forum in UK and has been pointed out that Windows 11 can not be tweaked like earlier versions for people who need larger desktop and application fonts - magnification is NOT the answer. Plasma 5.27 (KDE) offers a better solution for visual accessibility over Windows 11. My other favourite DE is LXQt which I prefer over xfce. So if no Zorin, probably MX-Linux KDE - it's really not that hard to get used to Plasma. The one downside is lack of Synaptic Package Manager, but so far am learning to put up with flatpak and snap packages (KDE Neon Store clearly indicates for each application whether it is flatpak or snap - of the two I prefer flatpak and if an application is not listed as flatpak I will do terminal search with:
sudo flatpak install [name of application]
if it comes back with nothing then reluctantly install the snap package that is available. KDE Neon is base off Ubuntu too.
Interestingly, I only have an nVidia GT1030 card in this rig and GhostBSD has just upgraded to the 535 driver - no issues!
I am really liking Zorin's ability to stay stable running various windows/apts at the same time, always smooth, snappy, and easy full recovery ability. Stability while doing various things at once to tie together research. Another OS quietly gaining an ability to be stable or recovers well in glitches is the Garuda OS. Not quite intuitive, however, it is snappy and looks good doing it. Worst for me was Endevour OS, made even Rhyno look stable - lol
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I have been reintroduced to linux. I thought that SuSE linux was the stuff back in '92, as it had 6 cd-roms to install all kinds of stuff. It was stable, and I could use it to kill the kids' bad choices when they were surfing the net on windows 98. 20 years later, I wanted back in to Linux, and after a trial, I purchased Zorin 16 OS. It plays my home videos and I learned how to get Steam.com to play my myriad of pinball tables. So, without Zorin, I would be learning SuSE and how to use VirtualBox to try other OS offerings out. I just don't know other distros to test or use.
Ive been pondering the hypothetical scenario of Zorin OS not being in the picture, and it got me thinkingâwhat alternative distributions would you consider making your daily driver? For me, it would definitely be Arch Linux and/or NixOS. Their flexibility, rolling release model, and robust package management systems appeal to my tinkering nature.
But hey, no matter what, you wont catch me making the leap to Windows. That's a bridge too far for me!
Linux distributions are more simple to understable, for people who don't need a online advertising, or in system operating things what you never used and taken space on hard disk and memory RAM.
I always have one pc with a different system in case of the failure of the other system - lol - and a third USB loaded - lol - Garuda has been uber stable for a while now - and is my secondary.
For me it would be simple, if ZorinOS was gone, it would be Linux Mint.
I would have to decide between the Standard release or the LMDE.
Ehhhmmm -- if no Zorin was possible; Mint 
Couldn't really get away from it till Zorin though!
For me when every years coming on the earth thousand new version linux.
Important is staying with some few favorite versions linux distributions.
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