Had that in Plasma on Q4OS for some time! 
(Scrollable Workspace).
I think I have already made my position clear that I won't be trying the Beta of 18 or the final release. Whilst all the feedback might be useful for Team Zorin, I can't help but feel that because of the way Gnome is progressively moving from bad to worse (unless of course you are a fan of Gnome Devs telling you what you can and can't do; reminiscent of Microsoft - when I was studying for Microsoft Office Professional, you had to do things the Microsoft way - which usually meant three things when I would have done two in my work-a-day setting!).
I do feel Zorin has missed an opportunity to offer Plasma as an alternative to Gnome. I appreciate that is what they grew up with and know it (relatively) inside out, but I think it is going to be harder this time around, I hope I get proven wrong.
Again, Windows 10 Migrators might be looking for something more familiar:
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I wanted to come back to it again, I found out that it was probably because zorin os has its own package sources. That's why it should come, so I think.
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Just so you know, every version of Windows costed money, usually 100 for the home version, 200 for the PRO version. This is back when Windows was the product, & they were selling it so hard, nobody ever knew that there was a thing called Linux.
Flash forward to modern day, Windows 10 & Windows 11, why do people think their free? Its because Windows is no longer the product anymore. The product is people's data, to use for AI, and totally infringe on people's privacy, to get it. In essence, you are the product, and can get away with paying you nothing for it.
Ohh, but its at the end, do they understand.
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Very well said @StarTreker
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I'm running Zorin 18 Beta on a 2017 Macbook Air 8/256 and it works great! I used a USB WiFi to get installed, then easily downloaded and installed the native wifi drivers. Everything else works perfectly, boots fast, and I was able to run everything I need. Looking forward to this becoming final so I can buy it!
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Is this empty .libadwaita file also needed in Zorin lite and Linux Mint XFCE or only in gnome?
Only in Gnome.
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Has anyone else experienced double logging in (as if there were two different login screens) after their computer locked due to inactivity? And after logging in, the system reloads everything from scratch.
I wonder if this is a bug or if something got mixed up on my end.
Companies like Google and Microsoft have caused a lot of harm by creating this notion that everything software is free of charge...
There have been similar issues reported about this. Please make sure to use the Feedback form (already pinned in the taskbar) to report this directly to the developers.
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I have already experienced this in Linux Mint XFCE when my laptop went into suspend automatically because of inactivity. For me it helped to disable
automatic screen lock. In gnome you can find this setting at privacy. Maybe it helps to avoid double password requests on your system, too.
I updated today my Zorin 18 Beta Installation and there were a lot of Updates including a Taskbar Update. After Installation, I made a Reboot because of a Kernel Update. And as the System was back ... my Taskbar looked like this:
It is empy, has the wrong Postion and obviously has nothing on it. The right-click Menu is still working for it. I rebooted again because I thought, that it might be
loaded right or so but nothing has changed. I looked in the Extension Manager an got this Error:
I wasn't able to disable the Taskbar Extension (could move the Toggle but didn't had an Effect). I tried it with uninstalling but when I would uninstall the Taskbar a whole lot of Zorin-realted Packages like other Extensions and the
zorin-os-desktop Package would be uninstalled, too.
I will see how it is when I will use a reinstall Command.
Thanks for reporting this issue.
We found that there was a regression recently introduced into the taskbar code. The regression caused this behaviour to happen when intellihide was enabled and the user logged out of the account and logged back in.
We've since resolved it in a new software update which will be published in the main software repositories shortly. However, if you wish to test this fix in the meantime, you can follow these steps:
- Download the new Zorin Taskbar package from here: https://launchpad.net/~zorinos/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+build/31324634/+files/gnome-shell-extension-zorin-taskbar_70.1.1_all.deb
- After downloading the .deb package, double-click on it to install this latest version.
- Finally, you can press the Windows/Logo key to open the Activities overview and search "Log Out" in order to log out of your account and log back in.
This should apply the new fix on your computer.
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I have downloaded it, installed it and made a Reboot after Installation and I can confirm that it runs now and work.
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It seems to me like there is a bug with keyboard layouts. I have 2 layouts installed (FR / RU), and I have opted for keeping active layout for each window (see image below). Nevertheless, the active layout is the same for all active windows (1st option in the figure).
It worked fine in 17.3 Pro though.
As it seems that Plasma 6 is running on Ubuntu 24.04 ... does somebody dares to give it it shoot and install it on Zorin 18.beta?
or
I would be dubious about KDE neon - I have had 3 screw ups with that OS already - I won't touch it again. I was going to play with KDE's own release of Plasma, but it is only in .raw format, not .iso and my imagewriter in PCLOS Debian can't cope with converting, it just crashes. That said I haven't seen if my newest install on trixie will work. Your post has reminded me! Guess I could try the first one out in a VM of the Beta.
I can tell you it is still a product! Because I took my Windows 7 Pro Drive out of the machine and had it in swap bay, Microsoft are not treating my 7 as a genuine product - after the failed activation of 10 it stated I need to pay £210+ to purchase 10 Pro/11 Pro - no thanks. I don't need Windows any more to build my website! Yay!
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But You saw that this on the Link from @swarfendor437 is Debian 13 based, yes? Because there is Plasma 6 included.
These shows how to install Plasma 6 from the Ubuntu 24 Repo. But as far as I know, there isn't Plasma 6 available because it came a bit too late.
When You add the Neon Repo, it would be better to use KDE Neon directly because Neon doesn't only offer the Plasma Destopk - it offers all the neccessary Dependencies. And when You only pick one Thing, that could end bad. Then use KDE Neon instead.
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I know that on previous Zorin OS 17, there was a link in the Settings app to guide the user to setting up local network sharing. Unless I've missed something, in the OS 18 beta, the only options are media sharing.
Obviously I can still get going manually with sudo apt install samba nautilus-share, but I was wondering if the omission was intentional, or just a beta quirk?
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