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Yesterday I installed OpenSuse with the KDE desktop and I must say, I was surprised with the huge amount of customization options. But also with how needlessly difficult it is to make even the simplest of changes. After about an hour I decided to switch to Gnome...
Zorin and KDE? I don't think it's a good fit at all. It would drain resources from other areas of development, and it would confuse beginners with yet another choice to install, and that is difficult to navigate and make sense of.
Zorin 17 I should to see people choice Zorin 17 and stop distrohopping. So it must be better from another distributions or have something to catch more ppl in the net like a fish.
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I would appreciate it if ZorinOS 17 could be installed on Apple hardware.
I also like the idea of becoming independent from Canonical. LinuxMint did it and developed a Debian Edition.
It must be possible in the Software Center to decide from which sources software is to be installed (snapt, flatpak, etc.).
This is a key reason for me to choose ZorinOS over Ubuntu.
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This is possible. You must look on the headerbar - upper right side. When you select a package, a button will appear there for the Source.
ZorinGroup added this feature with the release of Zorin OS 16.
Yes, I know. And I hope this will be also possible in ZorinOS 17!
I mean Apple Macs with Intel Chips.
ZorinOS?
You might try using rEFInd to install on Mac
https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
OK, I will try it as soon as my friend entrust me her MacMini.
It would certainly suit her if ZorinOS is running, because I have already replaced Windows with ZorinOS on her laptop on her behalf. Then I don't have to use Linux Mint for the 8-year-old MacMini as I thought.
I waiting for Zorin 17 the same like next years merry christmas and Santa Claus when you wishpering a wish for suprise.
Zorin 17 propably will be huge suprise with newest software and kernel. 
also more desktop enviroments.
It will be great with more layouts.
It will be nice in Zorin 17 if it exist most popular software what people using on any device.
Komorebi is a memory hog. I think either Storm or Bourne gave a better way of doing it in Tutorials section.
Zram it could be nice it is exist in two distributions.
Make it so this selected Zorin Appearance Layout has a searchable field in the Zorin menu as all the others include a built-in search when clicking the 'Windows-start-like' Zorin menu button.
Agreed. I've always been a bit confused by the usual 'Power Saver / Balanced / Performance modes' on Windows though. Who selects 'balanced'?... I kinda want performance... I kinda want to save power... not too fussed about either... 
Usually a 'power saver/restrict performance' or something more descriptive about what it's actually doing would be good - I'd turn that on when I'm worried about power bills or the fans getting loud.
Also, on that feature, I'd suggest to avoid having power profiles linked to standby/screen off like they often are on Windows. I might be alone on that thought though? I usually choose 'performance' and then manually set the standby/screen off to be a short time like 5 mins separately as there's not much penalty for standby - computers resume near instantly these days.
"Miracle" and "Paradise". 
The Zorin 17 if will be created on base a debian not Ubuntu could be like a Debian on first place? Then two version Zorin-Debian and Zorin-Ubuntu.
Having two versions of the same product that do the exact same thing is, in my opinion, a mistake. Splitting efforts like that is simply more work for very little gain, if any. Personally I like the idea of having a Debian based Linux Mint, as well as ZorinOS. But I think that even better than that is having something that works and works well, so I'm all in for whatever the developers are most comfortable with to continue to improve the product.
But even if Zorin were to become Debian based, it's unlikely to be in the next release which is just around the corner.
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