I've been using Windows every version since 2.03, including 11, but I've finally had enough! I did quite a bit of research and over Easter made the switch to Zorin Pro. I seriously considered Mint, and having since installed that on a long-retired desktop that I had in a cupboard, it has confirmed my perception that Mint is for those wanting to retain as much of Windows 10 as they could, but that Zorin is more like what Windows could have been, instead of the 11 disaster.
The transition hasn't been quite as smooth as I hoped, but I won't be going back. I've already posted suggesting that an easier 2 disk installation would be good and that Nemo is much better than Nautilus. I've also a Help question. Given that I regularly exchange documents with Windows users I loaded the MSCore fonts and am also trying some other animation tweaks. It took a lot of fiddling to get Zotero to work with LibreOffice Writer, including manually loading their Java and a manual installation of Zotero, as the flathub version didn't seem to connect. The version of Qgis installed by flathub was out of date and I had to manually install the current LTS version. I don't doubt that there might be more issues to experience down the line, and that I'll explore more tweaks from time to time, but overall, I'm liking Zorin and can't ever see myself going back to Windows.
One of the features of Zorin is the choice of Layouts, but I'm not a huge fan of any, so I'll make some suggestions that I think could make the first 2 that, have the "Z" icon replacing the Windows Start button, dramatically better for me.
I make very little use of the app categories column above the "Z" and often find it easier to just start typing an app name. (BTW I still haven't worked out the distinction between Utilities and System Tools and have often found things in the other one to that in which I first looked.) I've ended up pinning a bunch of my most used apps to the dash, as I did in Windows, but it's getting cluttered. I think that it would be better if the column of app categories were replaced with a user manageable column for Favorite apps. Upon a clean install it could contain the Software and Files (preferably Nemo) apps that are currently pinned to the dash, but at the top, an icon leading to a document ("Z" Instructions"?) describing how the user can add, remove and sort apps within this column.
The right column mostly, devoted to Libraries is good, but it'd nice to be able to add our own bookmarks as in Nemo. Below the line, the Software icon could be replaced with one for "app Categories" which could be a pop-up or separate window, as the Software app would initially be in Favorites and would always be available in System Tools.
Within the right column (above the line) and in "app Categories" it would be nice if the icons could be user-arranged and their intended contents explained in more detail with a right or CTRL click.
These suggestions are applicable to the first 2 Layouts and I think could nicely increase the layout options available in Core to 6, or possibly be reserved for Pro, where they could also apply to the 11th. Would something like these suggestion be feasible for 18.2?
Another option, that I probably wouldn't use but others might like, would be similar to the above but with no alpha labels at all. That could be even more additional layouts.
(BTW I'm a hopeless coder, but I'd be happy to help with Beta testing implementations of my suggestions. 
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