Hi.
I installed Zorin 18 Core (even if I had purchased 17 Pro, I didn't want to wait for the in-OS upgrade).
The problems started since the first days. Some examples: I installed Brave (with apt, not Snap); some days later, it stopped working for Zorin's admin user (the main user). I had just created a standard user too, and I don't know if that was the thing that broke Brave, but Brave was still working there. Zorin's admin user: Brave won't open, Zorin's standard user, Brave works. I tried everything, and eventually I had to delete Brave and reinstall it. Obviously, I lost all Brave’s data for the admin user.
Today: suddenly my screen locks. Like Win+L... the login screen appears while I'm using Zorin. I type the password, the login screen again, and so on in a loop. There are topics in some forums about this issue, and I followed a lot of instructions (thanks God, the Terminal with ctrl+alt+F4 works), but there's no way, I'm stuck (the problem seems to be related to dpkg, but who knows at this point).
The point is, it's a problem that exists, but I've never seen it in a just-intalled-Linux-distribution, nor in the past versions of Zorin.
Zorin 18 doesn't seem very different from the last 2 versions (I bought both the Pro versions), but as far as I can see, it's unstable, or simply not ready to be a stable distro. I really doubt I'm going to purchase the Pro. I really doubt I'm using it at all, knowing that random problems can pop up suddenly. Bad problems, not simply problems.
Maybe I should learn to use the command-line version of Zorin... in this moment it's the only version that is working on my laptop. Or maybe I should stare at the beautiful login screen, the only GUI working.
I unfortunately have to agree. After reading about multiple distros, I decided on Zorin 18 for a Gen 1 Surface Pro.
After about a week of messing around with it, I thought I had a fairly stable OS. Had an admin account, and a user account. Now, after being stable for about 2 days, I'm back to being stuck in a login loop. Ctrl + Alt + F4 do nothing but adjust the volume on the login screen. If I add in the function key, I'll be presented with the terminal, but then it stops recognizing the keyboard, so I'm quite literally stuck. Add onto this the fact that it continues to go into Suspend mode every 10 seconds, even though it's disabled...
Almost rather go back to using the un-supported Windows 8 it came with. I couldn't even install any programs, but at least I could use MS Paint....
