Not really. I'm looking for the philosophy behind and if the distro is minimalist in its approach of setting a distro together. Some distros thinks it's better to through everything and the kitchen sink as default set up - those distro I avoid. I want less = better.
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I voted keep GNOME because in my opinion and experience KDE Plasma and Budgie are both still unstable.
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I voted keep GNOME because I'm dealing with enough change already. Plus I don't know the others well enough to judge them.
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I wonder if many members ignore the keep XFCE Option because they think it is asking to replace Gnome with XFCE instead of Keeping Zorin OS Lite.
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I think to say that Plasma is unstable isn't correct, but can understand why that might be assumed, based on my experience with KDE neonuser spin. I have found 5.27 to be the most stable and not looking forward to being shoehorned into any OS that forces me to use Wayland or a kernel that is too high to run on old hardware. And to avoid e-waste I particularly like distributions that offer lighter environments and still support i386 (32-bit) architecture, such as Trinity Desktop Environment that Q4OS has to offer. M'lady's Athlon 64 single processor rig from 2006 is just about coping with Q4OS Plasma 5.27. I think at some point it may need replacing with Q4OS Trinity 32-bit offering (also available in 64-bit). I normally dislike xfce, but PCLOS Debian's rendition is nicely done. Lastly (but not only) is Devuan 5 ('daedulus') which also uses xfce by default, and available as 32-bit and free of systemd bloatware.
That was actually my Intention behind that. Zorin seems to want focus on one Desktop Environment (that is a Reason for only one Vote). And they decided for Gnome. So, I want for this Voting give the Option to vote for the xfce (Lite) Desktop.
I mean, it might be realistic that the Zorin Team decides to change their Mind and keep xfce instead of Gnome. But for an open What-if-when Action and because there seem to be not less People who use it, I list it to vote for it.
But I maybe, I could made it more clear when I would had used the Points:
- Keep Zorin Core (Gnome)
- Keep Zorin Lite (xfce)
But to avoid Irritations, I will let it be like it is. And for me it looks like the People seem to understand.
Quite happy with Zorin defaults... but then, not know much about this stuff anyway
Since Zorin OS ships with a customized GNOME anyway, I voted for GNOME. It looks best and is super user-friendly.
I wouldn't have said so if it were vanilla GNOME. I personally don't like the look of XFCE or Cinnamon, and KDE, while infinitely customizable, can easily be overwhelming to new users (less is more, whether you believe it or not 
).
Plus, my own experience with KDE has been less than stellar. It always seems to conflict with its own settings. (But it's a hot topic of debate, so let's not go there...)
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Gnome - there are features to help Microsoft customers transition (already in Ubuntu) such as One Drive integration, but not in the current ZorinOS as it is running an earlier version of Gnome
Shouldn't Keep Gnome and Keep xfce count as one cause everything else involves switching to a specific DE?
No. It is about one Desktop. And that includes these 2, too. So, Gnome or xfce.