I'm curious, @JohnM, have you upgraded to 18? I've seen posts about file sharing not working so am wondering if it works for you.
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If you are happy with Zorin OS 17 and don't have any need to upgrade, I would suggest waiting a little longer. The upgrade is still in beta and there are a few other issues still in the air.
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well i gotta say. i downloaded zorin OS last version and somehow i noticed that its good for basic users, but im kinda skeptic about playing any games on this OS yet, since i noticed that ram memory leaks are hapenning.
there are people who want to migrate from windows 11 to some other OS because of the things that happened recently with updates.
for programmers will be some issues like opening some stuff with applications and for gamers its another story, like chewed ram that goes even to 16 gb instead to frezze in 1 place for usage of ram, even if its developers fault of the gaming companies for not adding something on steam or any other application, maybe if OS had some adjustments and somehow that even windows 10 and 11 has that inside operating system for stopping, usage of huge memory, but does linux kernel has that one.
Been on Zorin since 16, and knowing their progression with releases, I already decided to wait until 18.1 comes out before migrating from 17.3. I hope by then the major issues some are having will have been solved.
I certainly wish I was being paid for every time I recommended something that I had no problems with and worked well, but someone else happened to have had some problem with.
The old-fashioned menu, there are actually three versions of the old-fashioned menus in NT, XP, Vista, 7
—Zorin OS uses 7, Mint uses classic— Mint gets recommended for mimicking the NT/XP version and it's popular, because the systems of the 2000s coincide with two, very large generations, so-called cohorts, of people who born are within a few years, namey the boomers and the milliennials. It's only now that quite a number of people no longer can or want or learned to navigate the menu trees within trees. If you look for "bring back menu" in Google, you find plenty of requests and desire to get the old-fashioned menus re-activated in Windows 11. It's also what installed first, or second.
On Mint, I tended to use Cinnamenu or StarkMenu on Cinnamon or WhiskerMenu on XFCE.
Gnome comes with a very basic menu, too...
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On MX Linux XFCE, I use the regular applications menu. Not the Whiskers menu.
Well, due to all the problems with Zorin 18 and lack of information to the public I decided to go with Debian 13 GNOME for now. Loads and runs fine so I'm happy . . .
Have fun with it. Debian is rock-solid. I would suggest, though, you go with either another desktop environment (XFCE, for example), or a Debian derivative like MX Linux (which is what I use as my daily driver now). If there's anything Zorin has done right, it's GNOME. But by itself without customizations, GNOME is horrible. Be interesting to know how your setup is in Debian 13 GNOME. Do you have extension after extension (to achieve some semblance of function), or ... ? (Thanks.)
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Omnimaxus - Here's my desktop and I'm only using two extensions. I really don't do too much other than Youtube.com and surf the internet . . . it works for me.
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Thanks @cc_spicuous for the context!! That makes sense. For me, I just prefer the Win11 style of menus.
I went with Zorin 18 Pro on my System76 Gazelle because I did not like cosmic. No install issues. Everything is working for me.
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Sadly, I've had to give up on Zorin for now. Zorin 18 was my first move away from 30 years of Windows. I decided to jump right in and did a clean install on my laptop. The installation went without a hitch and so did a couple of application installs. However, my screen randomly froze while using the wireless mouse. I read lots and changed my log in to Xorg but it kept freezing. I thought it might be the newness of the release and so I installed 17.3 but same issues. I even had a freeze with my mouse disconnected using the trackpad. I really love the look and feel of Zorin but the regular screen freezes are too painfull. I thought it might be my laptop and so I installed Linux Mint to see if I experienced the same issues as Zorin. However, after 3 days - not a single freeze. Everything works perfectly. I conclude that there is something in the Zorin config that clashes with my set-up. I will come back to it when I have more time - perhaps trying a dual boot with Linux Mint so I can play around with it while I have a stable OS to work with.
I'm late to this party, but i just wanted to say that i'd probably go with Zorin 17.3 and bump the kernel rather than switch to Mint or such, only to come back to Zorin 18 when it's more robust.
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Do You had Fractional Scaling enabled? Did You checked if there is maybe a Driver for Your Mouse for Linux?
I am sorry to hear about this. I would respectfully recommend using MX Linux (either the XFCE or KDE variant). It works very, very well. There is a reason why it has consistently been in the top 3 of Distrowatch's list of "hits." Ironically, I did consider maybe installing Zorin 18 and giving it another chance, but nope. (I do have a spare laptop lying around, though - maybe I'll install the "core" version on there and see how it functions just for kicks.) Anyway, why don't you give MX Linux 25 a whirl? You'd like it, probably. Link: https://mxlinux.org
Hi, I'll need to read up about Fractional Scaling. I tried 2 different wireless mice - 1 from HP and the other from Logitech. As I mentioned - it happened without the mouse using the trackpad. The wireless mouse might be a red herring and it may be something else all together. I won't give up - I'll work through different combinations as time permits to see if I can get a period of stability. Thanks for responding.
