I am 80 years old and started with Zorin 2 weeks ago and |I am on the point of reverting to Windows11, as I cannot get the touchpad/mouse to behave, so my Lenovo Yoga is unusable. Zorin was well worth a look, there must be a lot of happy users out there, and I wish them all the best. Good Luck Zorin
Shame .... have you asked on this forum how to solve your problem ... I know nothing about the Lenovo Yoga but I'll bet someone on here does .... give it a try and good luck .....
As promised, a little (but very long video, no music) of Epidemic 3.1 r.2 Beta as promised:
Not ready to view yet as only 6% uploaded so far, then it has to go through another process to allow multiple High Resolutions.
Hallo Bill1,
I am 65 and was long time ago working for 20 years in the computer industry, also starting with Assembler, Basic, Cobal, C, but then mainly worked on DEC Platform with Ultrix (UNIX), VMS, WNT, Windows and Network Management.
Using Zorin OS 18.1 Pro as daily driver since Oktober 2025 with 4 PCs, two of them in dual boot with windows 11 24H2. Win11 is configured frozen without network connection or windows updates. One app still needs windows. But MS cannot buther me anymore as they have no access anymore to my systems.
Maybe an option for you too? Perhaps there are ideas for possible solutions for you! I've got a lot of help from this Forum people.
Just found this. I am having fun reading these. I think July, 23 or 24 will be 1 month for me. Some of you have mentioned a CD. I know it won't happen, but I wish CD's would come back.
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A well known store in the UK, primarily a Newsagent that expanded into other things like Books, VHS and Music which declined, sold its High Street Stores to another company. I snaffled possibly the last available 100 stack of DVD-Rs and 100 Stack of CD-Rs.
There aren't many distros these days that will fit on a CD. The average distro these days varies from 3.5 to just over 4 Gb. Then, when it gets above that like Zorin Education (5.1 Gb), you need a thumbdrive with a minimum of 8 Gb,
more if Bazzite!
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Ok, that explains it.
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Anyone remember computer Magazines where they expected you to type in pages of code for a program line-by-line 
(e.g. for Sinclair Spectrum).
I wonder why we never got anything to run.
Magazines with free software on Floppy Disk then CD/DVD followed.
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Whats weird is, my generation was one of the last, to learn and use computers, quite well. Not all if us became programmers no, but many of us were competent. Flash forward to gen-Z, many dont know how to turn on a desktop computer, let alone build one. Flash forward to gen-A, none of them even use a computer, and wouldn't know how to operate one let alone code on one or build one. Today, everything is done on their phones, and they are the generation with lowest IQ scores. Asking them to run a DOS prompt or Terminal scrypt code, smoke would come out their ears, with BSOD's shown in the glass of their eyes lol.
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I remember. I typed out some of them for the Commodore VIC-20 (VC-20 in Germany). About 50% of the listings worked on the first try. Unfortunately, some didn’t work at all because the listing was printed incorrectly and the correction wasn’t published until the next issue of the magazine 
I didn’t get a floppy disk until later, on the C64.
By the way, I'm 62. I'm certainly not the oldest Zorin user, but I'm not exactly young anymore either.
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I remember when I was a young boy. And had a family computer. Didn't know what brand. Just had one. And the floppy disk was really a floppy disk. And we had Dot Matrix Printer. Those were fun days. Then the Floppy disk got hard and smaller. And still called Floppy.
When my brother had Red Hat decades ago. He built his computer. Then he started to teach me. What and where I needed to get supplies.
At one time he had me on a website server of his. I think. And I started learning HTML. Don't remember a thing now. I had a book. And started writing HTML codes.
Recently, I needed to learn how to redo my USB flash drive. So, I learned how to delete partitans. I can't spell. Then create a new one. Then Format. For a clean useable flash drive again. That was new.
Going down memory lane. Isn't is fun.
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Yeah, for us it was a new frontier, something wild and wonderful. We didn't mind that it seemed sometimes as complex as assembling a Heath Kit.
Now, computers are largely seen as mere appliances. Understanding or modifying or building a basic calculator is of little interest to anyone. To most folks, a computer is just a different kind of calculator.
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@zabadabadoo You are forgetting Sinclair User. I remember getting a cassette on the front!
@countrywolf19 Floppy disks, those massive 5.25 inch (5 1/4 inch) disks in paper/cardboard holders and a 'lock' on the drive. I realise why floppy disks still were called floppy disks when they dropped to 3 and a half inches. If you dismantle one you will find the floppy disk inside, same material as used in the 5 and a quarter inch floppies.
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know why they picked 3.5 inches?
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Well, I never realised the first were 8"!
I seen to remember 5.25" held 720 Kb, wheras 3.5" held 1.44 Mb - but the Amiga was more efficient, 1.76 Mb storage capacity!
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...the shirt pocket, that absolutely.
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But not if you are wearing standard issue Starfleet Acadamy Uniform!
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Sir, your flippy is showing...
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I do not remember any Magazine with a free tape cassette stuck to the front cover, but that is 100% better than hand typing lines and lines of code and then saving to tape cassette to find a typo or line missing. That compounded by all Sinclair Specturm keys being multi-function. I also remember having to take a small screwdriver and adjust the alignment of the "play" head to get best output for different cassettes. It was an awful fiddly business, but kept us off the streets.
I do vaguely remember 8" floppy's way back, but 5.25" and 3.5" regularly used. I was also a regular user of 80column punched cards and paper/mylar punched tape. I think IBM Card Punch machines were lovely items of furniture. Some fun at College involved shuffling other students card deck (arm full of cards comprising a program) before they submitted them to the County mainframe for overnight batch run. If you were clever you numbered them all at the outset.
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