Would love to have that animated Zorin display when booting up. Like when you boot up the live image of Zorin. Now I have my motherboard brand showing instead which is okay... I think 
For me, the motherboard logo (actually in my case the laptop brand) shows up with the Zorin loading animation below it similar to how Win10/Fedora boot up. It's pretty slick. I'm surprised that you only see the motherboard logo.
Could it be because I have a nvidia card with binary driver? In the paste (way back) the bootup screen wouldn't show if you have binary driver loaded.
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If I am in full screen and hit the windows icon to open the menu, it doesn't appear where it should be also it should show the full taskbar right? It doesn't. It's very annoying when I'm doing classes/watching movies.
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I have edge scrolling for my touchpad on, and it switches itself back off after every boot
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Probably unrelated, but whenever i do Zoom Classes, i get 80+ CPU usage sometimes even reaching 100. Task manager shows it using 22% and gnome using ~20%. Rest are very minimal like ~1-2%. I have no idea why.
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In the software app, when selecting "Flatpack", it stays on "preparing" for a veryyy long time. When i switched to Zorin repo, it was much much faster
Suggestions
- When installing, users can make a selection of apps they want included, such as ability to install Firefox or Edge, or if we want the games included.
- Maybe, if its possible by Zorin devs, add something like a troubleshooter which is present in Windows.
- PLEASE PLEASE simplify the update options, when i get an update popup, i get a heck ton of lists that I have no idea of. I even still get updates for apps like Firefox.
Just some thoughts, Linux still feels a lot less user friendly compared to windows, though using Zorin has simplified this a lot. Like almost everything a bit complex involves using the terminal.
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@Storm @Aravisian @zabadabadoo @FrenchPress
Sorry if you were disturbed by the tagging.
I would love you guys input on the post above. Thanks!
I avoid Gnome as much as possible and so am even more of a novice on Gnome than anywhere else.
Can you try disabling Two Finger Scrolling, first:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad two-finger-scrolling-enabled false
Then enable edge scrolling and reboot and test.
This issue is with Flathub, sadly, and not within Zorin OS control.
It is known that Zoom is a CPU hog most often in Linux Distros and performs better on Windows. Partly because Windows is the Dominant OS in the market; Zoom is designed for it. Some have had some luck in disabling hardware acceleration to get Zoom under control. Others had some luck by changing their kernel. But this is a common problem with Zoom, there are open tickets with the Zoom Developer that are simply Standing.
EDIT: I am logged into Zorin Gnome Desktop now and performed a Common Test: I ran a YouTube video. It shows lag and hesitation that is not present in XFCE or Cinnamon Desktop on Zorin, but is present in Gnome Desktop on Zorin. This suggests that Gnome-Shell is the culprit.
My PC hardware already doesn't support that so it's not there
Lmao, so relatable. Even my friends on Windows complain about high CPU usage. I myself too get high CPU when running Zoom but not the level on Linux. Probably cause it's less optimized
Removing the Firefox Language Packs using Synaptic Package Manager will easily resolve this issue.
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I use Bleachbit to eliminate all those languages I would never use in this lifetime 
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I am not running Z16 so did not contribute earlier. However, Re language packs etc, this thread may help:
Tagging @azorin and @zorink as I have also noticed some peculiarities with Zorin 16 Gnome Desktop.
It's slowed down, significantly.
Earlier, in looking at another users issue about Zoom, I did a test on (Gnome) Zorin OS desktop by running a standard youtube video in FireFox browser. I had only two tabs open at that time - As I had just logged into the Gnome Desktop. The video would lag out about every twenty seconds.
This piqued my curiosity, so I started repeating the tests I performed on Gnome when Zorin 16 Beta was first released. While it was blazing fast then (opening as much as Twenty Images in Gimp in a blink), now it hesitated heavily, taking a full two minutes.
I had not noticed this until now, as I had installed XFCE 4.16 on Zorin OS Beta and Cinnamon, which are my Primary Desktops. In those, Zorin is still as fast as normal.
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I might have missed something but I thought you can disable M/B logo display (splash screen) in BIOS. I always disable it on my system.
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On the laptop I'm using at the moment that have an Intel video card there's no problem showing the Zorin logo at boot up. But with Nvidia cards = No Zorin Logo.
Ah, I see.
I did not know that since I only have either discrete GPU or integrated GPU. It seems that the hybrid GPU could be a (major/minor) headache in both Linux and Hackintosh.
In looking up how to do this on my machine, I also found how to remove the Manufacturer (Big ugly green thing) Logo with EcoSmart on the Monitors, as well. So a double whammy of helpfulness, this one.
Powering on Monitors goes straight to the desktop now with no splash (or delay at all) and the boot goes straight to the Zorin OS Splash Screen (I use the Zorin 15 splash on Zorin OS 16, because I prefer it.)
Nvidia drivers have not loaded yet. You may need to add the grub parameter GRUB_GFXMODE with the right value (I don't know what it is off the top of my head) or add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep, then update grub and test (When your computer is working).
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Sometimes the solution appeasers in a completely unexpected context. One of the reasons I hang around this forum
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I don't lag as much, I don't know if it's cause my CPU is 10 years old, but there is a noticeable performance drop (compared to xfce)
This is not for CPU but for memory usage of different desktops:
Same data sorted by the average value:
There is no denial that the Gnome is rather heavy weight.
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How low Enlightenment is surprised me. I really like the Enlightenment Desktop, too...
I know that in first-hand experience
Before I learnt how to run a printer server headless, I had to install Linux with desktop on <7 GB eMMC in Intel Compute Stick (the earliest and cheapest type).
The only distro which fit and still usable was Bodhi Linux with Moksha desktop (which is a fork of Enlightenment).