Hi to all. So, today was a bit of a milestone for me as a Zorin OS user. It may not seem like much to most of you (or all of you), but I just deleted my Linux Mint ISO and folder of Mint-related stuff (e.g., notes for myself, apps I'd used on Mint, and on on). Basically, what this means for me in terms of real-world use is that I've settled on Zorin OS after having gone from OS to OS while going back to Zorin a few times over the past year. Congratulations, Zorin Group. I did save the Linux Mint ISO I had for a "just in case" scenario (like if I had a change of heart or whatever), but nope. I was doing a bit of file cleaning, and looked at my Linux Mint folder. I asked myself, "why is this still here, especially if it's taking up storage space?" So I went ahead and deleted it after a minute of self-reflection. Now Zorin OS is the only Linux OS I have an ISO for (much like how I had a copy of my Windows ISO for years and years; ready to go for a reinstall, which didn't really happen much, but still). The point is, Zorin is now my to-go OS for Linux. Artyom and Kyrill, despite what I've said with my positive, negative, and/or constructive feedback in the past, have done a good job with Zorin OS, overall. Yes, they could improve with their communication (blah blah), but yeah. Onward and upward!
Also....forward.
That thing where you go from OS to OS is called distrohopping. Very popular among most Linux users. 
I think it's so ingrained into the culture that no one would really mind if you were actually using multiple distros at the same time, as evident by the fact that folks routinely talk about Pop OS and others in this forum.
I VM distrohop.
Time permitting that is.
I can't help but wince a bit at the deleted notes. ISOs can be redownloaded, apps can be reinstalled, but notes... Mint being also based on Ubuntu, those could've been useful to you. I'm not trying to preach, but information lost is so much harder to restore, if not remembered!
I'm on Nobara again right now in fact, after the Nvidia 570 drivers and 6.13 kernel weren't ready to coexist on Zorin, but were here (with Plasma 6 to boot). Several mainstays here don't use Zorin as their daily driver anymore, but stay for the community. This forum is really hard to beat.
Totally understand. Fair point. But most of my notes for Zorin also apply to some degree or other when it comes to Mint, too, so all is not entirely lost. I get it, though. Thanks! EDIT: Agree re: forums.
That's partly me, too. I bought a new laptop (Asus Zenbook 14 OLED, super lightweight, great battery life, incredible display) to go along with my Mac where I could run Linux. Since it has newer hardware, I was missing some key features on Zorin, so I had to go for Fedora 41. That doesn't mean I stop preaching Zorin OS (or coming to this forum, for that matter).
You're right; this forum is something else. I'm semi-regular on other forums, but the community feel I get here is hard to come by in most other places. (That is priceless, and I hope the Zorin Group sees that.)
Me too, but I hadn't realized GPUs matter as much in VMs.
My Asus ROG Zerphyrus G15 with an RTX 3070 can run most distros in VM (Gnome Boxes) just fine. I didn't face any issues with lag or performance (other than on Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu's fault.).
However, my new laptop without a dedicated GPU struggles to run VMs (Also on Gnome Boxes). I've installed Linux Mint and Pop_OS and both are really slow. I haven't dug into it more but I think it's the lack of a dGPU that's the reason.
Sucks cause I really like to VM distrohop as well. (My Zorin has about 7 or 8 distros in Boxes.)
Strange, no prob here.
I haven't got a dedicated GPU but don't run more than one VM at a time.
My spec is 11th gen i5 integrated graphics
24Gb ram
Around 14 VM's
You should give virt-manager a try. The default graphics driver is 'virtio'. I had an issue running community PCLOS Trinity DE and had to change it to VGA and the error disappeared:
We've all been there at some point, and it felt great!
I first tried this with Ubuntu, but after a few weeks of headaches I went back to my trusted Windows 7... It was a failed experiment but it felt great knowing that I could choose and control what to install.
A few years later, I tried again with a cheap, second hand Chromebook (at the time there was a Xubuntu-based distribution called Gallium OS). I only used it occasionally, when travelling and such, but it worked pretty decently so I finally decided to repeat the experiment in my main laptop. Since I had some bittersweet memories with Ubuntu, I tried something different, and that's how I landed on Zorin OS.
Like many others, I liked it so much that I couldn't wait to see what else was out there. I've since tried a bunch of distributions: Mint, Pop!_OS, Fedora, OpenSUSE (Leap and Tumbleweed), Endeavour OS, Manjaro, Debian... I've been using Debian for almost 2 years now, so I've settled down for a bit, but I've been meaning to try something else for some time. I might just take it slowly and go to Devuan for a little while.
Zorin OS remains my go-to solution for people new to Linux. I've successfully installed myself a few times for friends and family and people are just as amazed as I first was about it. There have been a few times where it didn't stick though, but just because certain special software didn't work properly on Linux, even with Wine.
Anyway, this is about your milestone. So, congrats! 
Agree here! Whatever OS I have installed I always have a bootable media or ISO of it, and I still have Windows 10 and 11 ISO ready for friends and family in computer distress hahah.
You reached a great milestone today and I'm glad you shared it here with us.
I second the idea of using VM to distro hop.
I've tried a long list of distros with a growing collection of live usbs.
Maybe Zorin isn't the most cutting edge distro out there.
But it is a stable computing experience for getting on with life.
Exactly.
Congratulations, @Omnimaxus ! I did the same a few weeks (months?) ago. I not only replaced Mint with Zorin, but also reformatted the USB that contained Mint and Pop!_OS.
Basic functionality and reliability of Zorin was the main reason, this forum and its members was the second. My needs for any OS is that it works reliably, and I can find out how to fix it if it doesn't. Mint, wasn't great for me, BUT worst of all was that the forum and its members sucked.
During term-time I just need my computer to be reliable and do what I need it to do. Maybe I'll have time in the summer holidays to do some distro hopping.
I do wish more knowledgeable users of Zorin would give it a boost on YouTube, I'm sick of being a newbie who shouts out for Zorin, and all the experts yell "Mint is the best distro for new users". It simply isn't.
Congratulations to you, too!
Because linux offers choice, with windows you cannot do that you can only select a older os if you want to hop. 
Who told you that? You can always…..change the wallpaper on Windows.