So the original issues I was having where dual monitors caused black screens appears to be fixed. I forgot to turn off my second monitor and it installed anyway without black screens.
The Try feature (regardless of one person's opinion) does not offer a way to run with NVidia drivers. As a result the experience was gawd awful under the disgusting nouveau drivers.
But this time around I just bit the bullet, booted the USB, and went straight to the install. The entire install process (with both monitors active) was an excellent experience. However even though I told you to use proprietary drivers you still insist on starting Zorin using the gawd awful nouveau drivers. I really don't know why you stick with that ■■■■ when Nvidia gives you drivers that actually knows how to use the video card.
So on bootup after install my main monitor was pale green or blue and my other was fine. No problemos. The poor color was on DPI and the good color was on HDMI -- don't know if that helps at all or not. So I declared my second monitor as primary so I can see the screens and I switched over to NVidia. Once that happened all my monitors were working normally. (gee what a surprise) HOWEVER IT SHOULD BE NOTED: the monitor display was originally larger than my monitor. But after changing the frequency to 75 Hz it displayed correctly. But this was also happening in a new install of Linux Mint as well.
It took a while to get Steam installed because there are a couple items listed that just say Steam. One appears to be official but the other is community written which I want nothing to do with. But I have run into a huge brick wall now. But I'll write a separate bug post for that.
Hey @DarcSeptor - in my experience almost all linux distros suffer from this pesky stubborn nouveau driver and I've always been unsuccessful installing nvidia while nouveau is being used. What I've done in the past is blacklist nouveau, reboot the pc and then install nvidia driver.
To blacklist, I create a blacklist-nouveau.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d. In it, I type the following and save:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
Then on my boot stanza (grub menu entry), added the line nouveau.modeset=0 then reboot. Usually after doing this, the gpu driver will be set to vesa and that's when I attempt to install the nvidia driver.
I just started playing with Zorin so I can't guarantee this will work. This is only my second day. I have a nvidia card installed on a desktop not being used and I might try to install it and see how it goes. Good luck to you 
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Very interesting. On Mint and here on Zorin I had no problem dumping the garbage in the trash. I ran the Driver Manager or whatever it is called, it listed 570 (which Mint does not) and the most difficult part was all the weird names exposed for the drivers. (probably the file name without a translation to human readable descriptions). After that it goes through the process and BLAM it says that I'm using that nasty, horrible proprietary software. Pobre bebe.
So, from what I understand, NVidia did not want their driver package installed in the linux process. Not sure why but probably some distros doing bad things with it. But they are working on an interface so that all builds can include and install real drivers during the install process. I though Zorin had implemented it, but apparently not.
You mean during the "linux os installation" process? How about after the OS had been installed? Have you installed the NVidia driver successfully yet? Might want to try following my steps, BUT at your own risk though 
. Can't promise anything.
Just FYI. I've installed nvidia driver 570 downloaded from NVidia website on my puppylinux and I had no issues