[Poll] Reason for choosing Zorin Pro

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#11

Exactly.
I certainly understand the concept behind saying "Both."

But I think the point in this is to demonstrate what is your Strongest Motive for choosing Zorin OS Pro.
If you must choose between the two... Which would you feel is the Stronger reason? It's not that a person cannot feel both reasons are valid.
It's that the poll wishes to learn the higher priority reason.

If "both" is an option, it is the easiest option... so most would probably just choose that and we wouldn't learn anything.

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#12

Good point.
If everyone select both then the result will be 50:50.
Not a very interesting result and I cannot claim that most of us selected Pro version to support developers.

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#13

Not just that but- I think it wouldn't be very accurate. I think most people do know what it really was that made them choose Pro. And it wasn't everything. It was A particular Selling Point.

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#14

Actually now I really think about.... the support is 80% motivation and additional desktop theme and pre-installed apps are 20% motivation.

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#15

New Zorin is like a new car with a better engine. That why trying. If nothing a changed then why buying a car only with diffrent a colour?
Zorin is like Ferrari but every a car have a diffrents a parts. If something not working that means that part is copyright not belongs to Zorin - example APPLE=Windows

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#19

I'm new to 16 Core (and Linux in general), which doesn't mean I won't eventually click on the Donate tab. My computing needs are simple (basic), so I don't know what I'd gain with going Pro. I don't need extras, nor basic support. Have to say I'm loving Zorin. :+1: Will probably install it on a 2nd computer.

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#20

I would have chosen both.

#21

See this comment by @Aravisian above.

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#22

Yes on reflection, this is a valid point.

#23

I haven't voted in the poll as I didn't purchase Pro. I've installed Core (adding Cinnamon DE) to a new-ish laptop, having been waiting for Lite to be released (and given up waiting as I didn't want to use Windows any longer.) I've donated a couple of times because I do appreciate the work of the developers and am keen to support them, so that would have been my vote if I had purchased it.

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#24

In the beginning I choosed pro. Because I wanted to support development etc. But last 2-3 months I switched back to Endeavour os. Why ? Easy. Full support from devs, community, lot of choice during installation, fully configurable. Smooth, fast experience. No issues at all.

Here, only good reasons to choose Zorin is community and awesome support from the moderators. If I would buy pro version again , I will rather donate that money to them :slight_smile:

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#25

Greetings from Germany,

as an old-aged professional I'm working for years with BSD and Linux.
Mostly OpenBSD with I3 or vanilla Debian for our Servers (KVM-virtualized).

I was looking for a easy-to-use win XP (!!) replacement for my 83 years old father and tried some distros (Deepin, UbuntuDDE, ...) and finally Zorin Lite & Core. And I had the luck to get some old but working iMacs (i3/2011 and i5/2012). I replaced MacOS with with Zorin core on the older one (for me / support reasons) and replaced the newer one with the pro version (for my father).
Good decision. He's accepting it. :smirk:
I don't like XFCE on Zorin - most of the one or two pixel point-and-hit areas in the corners when using the mouse (as my father does...).
Gnome is quite more handy.

That's it. I like Zorin on the old Macs. Good Job!

Best regards
Andre (I just got my first coffee today ...)

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#26

Hi and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

I used to play around with BSD but never be able to create a usable desktop environment mainly due to the lack of drivers :frowning:

You expressed my occasional frustration very eloquently!

Yes....But GNOME has its own quark....

Nothing is perfect.

#27

Can you explain that more?

#28

I can explain that to you.
There is this loooong standing issue about XFCE desktop.

It is mighty difficult to grub the bottom corner of a windows to resize it.

This problem depends on the desktop theme.
The only one that works flawlessly is Adwata, which is not everyone's cup of tea :tea:

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#29

Not the only one. :wink:

I can custom make any theme to work the way the user wants in XFWM4 and have done so by request many times.
Perhaps I should make the Zorin Themes in XFWM$ for grabable areas, and include that in the Cinnamon and Mate Zenith themes.

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#30

I did not know it was possible :heavy_heart_exclamation:

#31

It's actually easy to do. XFWM4 Follows the image as the guide for the resize area. :slight_smile:

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#32

That's a great news.
The major reason I switched my Mint desktop from XFCE to Cinnamon was this corner grubbing issue.