Well after playing around with Zorin OS 18.1 for about a month I have decided to go in all the way. The part I'm still not sure of is Partitioning the drives. Is it done before the install or after and just how they should be set up is way beyond me. I have 32 g of DD5 memory and 2 NVMe 2t drives available.
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Hi @GreenMtns, so as you've been playing around with Zorin for a few months and have decided to take the plunge, I'm guessing that you already have Zorin on a flash drive? If not, avoid BalenaEtcher and use Ventoy, if you're in Linux, or you could use Rufus if you're in Windows.
Everything is taken care of in these step-by-step instructions, leaving nothing to worry about - just skip BalenaEtcher!
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The Partitioning comes before the actual Installation. But it is Part of the whole Installation Process.
For setting it up, it depends what You want do. When Your Comment measn that You want remove Windows and install Zorin only, you could choose during the Installation the ''Erase disk'' Option. That will delete all Data and install Zorin. the Partitions will be created automatically. So, You don't need to do that.
If you want be sure that all Microsoft Stuff is gone from all of Your Drives, You can before the Installation of Zorin start GParted in Live Mode and delete all existing Partitions. And then install Zorin with the ''Erase disk'' Option.
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Personally I always prefer the something else method. I would ensure Fast Boot and Secure Boot are disabled in the BIOS and perhaps forget about UEFI altogether.
Starting with the downloaded .iso, double-check the SHA256sum against the one Zorin provides to ensure it is not corrupted.
Then I recommend you create a Ventoy thumb drive with Ventoy2disk and go with mbr. Then just drag the .iso to the Ventoy thumb drive.
So forgetting about UEFI for the moment. GNU/Linux uses MiB (MebiBytes), not Mb (Megabytes), so I would use just two partitions using the 'something else' method.
So for the 'root' partition (labelled '/' without the single quote marks) I normally create one equivalent to 80 Gb, in MiB this is 76293 MiB (GB to MiB Conversion Gigabyte to Mebibyte Calculator).
Then the rest of your drive create a /home partition.
Ensure both partitions are formatted to Ext4. You do not need a 'swap area/linux swap' partition as you have plenty of RAM and you are using SSD's.
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