Very Rocky First Experience
I will preface this by saying I have been distro-hopping by trying different distros through a virtual machine. As I am currently trying to potentially move to Linux from Windows. Most of the distros were very meh to me except Ubuntu which I liked right from the start. But then the very last one I tried caught my eye, Zorin.
It was extremely elegent looking, the UI reminds me of something from Windows 7 era. And I love it. So with that, I decided to get off the virtual machines and try zorin for real this time...
Before doing so I made sure to look into exactly how I was going to do this, as I wanted to still be able to boot into Windows for now incase I do not actually like it like I thought I would. I needed to be sure that I could secure boot AND dual boot.
So here we go, I boot into the Zorin OS flash drive I made via balena etcher and I start to see my first issue. Albeit, I have had a similar experience on Windows but basically I have a 3 monitor setup, one on the left, one in the middle and one on the right. The one on the right is a bit different as it is vertical. Now, I have this issue where my far right monitor always ends up showing up as labeled "1" followed by my middle as "2" and the left one as "3". Because of this I have to basically move the installation box around until I can properly see it on my main monitor in the middle.
This wasn't really that big of an issue, yet.
I end up going through the installation up until it asks me how I'm going to partition everything to get it set up. This is the part that I believe screwed me because I read mixed things about it. But basically I selected my secondary SSD as I thought installing alongside Windows was probably not a good idea on the same drive, but then I see also the option to choose which drive will install the bootloader GRUB onto. From what I read, you should install it on the same drive as Windows is using so that you don't have two separate bootloaders on two separate drives.
This is where my first major issue came in.
After the installation finished, but right before rebooting, I receive an error message that a fatal error has occurred and that GRUB could not be installed. Uh oh...
Low and behold when I reboot the PC, zorin is nowhere to be found in my boot devices. I'm not sure what exactly happened here but I basically found a way to install GRUB through the terminal by opening it in the live environment off the usb.
Okay, fine whatever, I got it to work. I don't really mind.
That's when my second issue came in. Upon booting into zorin for the first time, I see that my far right most monitor that is in vertical(portrait) orientation is the one that the login screen decided to show up on. Great...
Not only that, the image is flipped horizontally so I have to maneuver the mouse and try to login properly.
For the next rest of my day I troubleshooted and troubleshooted and tried pretty much everything possible to have the login screen default to my main middle monitor to no avail. Except eventually, at my wits end, I had a LLM(chatgpt) and yes I know I shouldn't be using AI for stuff like this, I had it create a script for me that would essentially turn off the right monitor so that it would force the login screen to display on my main middle monitor.
After all that, finally... I fixed two issues that were pretty bad. But man the fact that I had to do all this just to begin using zorin or Linux in general for that matter it's extremely frustrating, I'm not exactly sure if you guys have any advice on if there's a better way I could have done things but it has been stressful as hell!
I'm not trying to bash on Linux or zorin in general but when I'm trying to do something as simple as installing the os I feel like I shouldn't have to go through these kind of hoops.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. 
