Zorin OS has been a surprisingly fun experience

I have tried other Linux distributions over the years but always came across hurdles trying to install software, getting peripherals to work or even getting WiFi to work. Linux felt like lot of work for not much benefit when I already had a Mac computer up and running and behaving how it should.

However I once again decided to try breaking away from big tech and discovered Zorin was just so damn easy to use. And for the most part everything just works.
I have been shilling Zorin to everyone who will listen ever since.

My next step is switching to Linux phones/tablet. Currently waiting for delivery of a Volla phone.

Potentially an Ubuntu Touch like Zorin Phone could be the next big move?
Maybe look at it from the perspective of reducing e-waste if peoples older devices can be rescued with ZorinOS?
Or go for the "Privacy Focus" route?
Or go for the work phone that doesn't distract you with notifications approach?
I've even noticed a trend with "young people nowadays" who are moving away from phone/social media addictions and switching to phones with more limited capabilities to reduce distractions.

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That trend is probably less than 1% of the "young people nowadays."

Over 10 years ago, I used to be a hardcore Ubuntu/Linux fan. Android was just starting to take off (this was even before Ice Cream Sandwich became widespread). Even then I'd flash various mods (CyanogenMod comes to mind) to de-bloat my phone.

I remember reading about Ubuntu-powered phones and tablets. There were quite some interest in the Linux world, but eventually, that appears to have faded.

Now that I'm kinda back to Linux (my primary is still and will continue to be macOS), I've noticed there's still not a good-enough-for-layman phone or tablet that runs proper Linux. Yes, there are the occasional YouTube videos that managed to make the perfect Ubuntu-powered phone/tablet, but they are not examples.

Like you, I think there's a demand for Linux-powered phones and tablets that don't run Android. And in fact, you probably still can flash custom de-Googled ROMs into many Android phones. But a mass-produced Ubuntu-powered phone or tablet? That's probably still many years away.

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Ubuntu already had tried and prepared that in the Past but never bring it to the Market. Even a TV OS they had planed.

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I didn't know. Pretty likely that they figured the demand wasn't that high.

Indeed, Zorin OS is a beautiful Linux distribution because it opened up Linux to a wider audience – LC3 that worked perfectly for me! A Zorin-style phone OS sounds great, especially if it’s for bringing new lives into old phones for instance or super simplification and privacy focused. I believe that there is a trend towards minimal distracting technologies which a Linux phone optimized for such use would fit perfectly.

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Some Linux distro's are not setup for the lamen, like Arch for example. If you don't have a programmers brain, with lots of skill, you can just forget that OS. LOL Reality is, most folks who use Windows, don't even know how Windows works. (Keep em out of the registry! LOL) So why would ya stick em on Arch? Some Linux distro's just require way too much to get them going, with like you said, very little reward.

You are right to shill, and you can go on shilling Zorin OS my fellow shill meister. HEHE! Zorin OS is made so that people migrating to Linux from Windows, can do so, with very few if no headache's whatsoever. And there is very little that Zorin OS can't do, that other Linux distro's can, so there is no need to be hopping OS's, unless you really want to.

I've never heard of a Volla phone, but I take it that Zorin OS is on it? I wonder how many services support a Linux phone?

I love reducing E-Waste, which is why I still have my old notebook computer. It isn't any good for gaming these days, but it makes for an excellent workshop computer.

You've noticed that trend? WOW, I have noticed the complete and utter opposite, over the past decade. I've never seen a generation more glued to their phones, then GenZ. I don't know what country you reside, but in the US, all schools require confiscation of kids phones, when they enter the school building, and can only get them back, at the end of the day.

Because of terrorism of the past, those phones are also locked into magsafe bags, which requires a code to unlock them. No, there is still a very huge issue with kids on phones 24/7, and schools had to implement these policies for both security and for insuring kids get an education. Before all these new policies were put into place, kids were on their phones all the time in class.

Times have changed a lot, because when I was in school, kids didn't have cell phones, they cost too much anyways, and their was no social networking back in those days. Cell phoens were just dumb phones that could make calls, thats it. But when the future cell phones came, introduce social networking, and thats all kids want to do now days.

I've never seen a kid more glued to a phone screen, then these modern times, and its bad. So again, don't know what country of the world you hail from, but while I completely agree with you on Zorin OS, I disagree regarding kids and cell phones.

If schools didn't have these regulations in place, kids would learn absolutely nothing. And to be completely honest, I think that kids could learn more. Where I think schools in this country are doing a disservice, is not teaching kids proper computer skills.

Kids don't know how to work on and service computers. And truth is, regarding that specifically, was the same when I was in school though. In our school, we had typing classes, but learning how to type, doesn't mean you can service a computer.

But give a kid a cell phone, they know every rivet of it, from beginning to end. lol. Cell phone addiction is real. Like I said, not in my generation though, but in genZ, its wild.


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@GrungeLover

@GrungeLover "I've even noticed a trend with "young people nowadays" who are moving away from phone/social media addictions and switching to phones with more limited capabilities to reduce distractions."

As a teacher, I wish I could say the same thing. Sadly, all I see are exhausted kids who spend 8 hours + on their phones, and parent's even allow them to take them to bed, so they're just not sleeping! One girl showed me her stats: 8 hours on Instagram, 6 hours on Tiktok... ... I don't remember how many hours of YouTube Shorts she watched as well.

I like my students to use their phones as tools to use a good dictionary, to search for information, but I'm talking about 3 or 4 minutes, not hours, and they're not allowed to "message" anyone, nor reply. if I catch them, the phone goes onto my desk until the end of the lesson. It is a private academy, so we don't have the same rules as state schools.

I'd love to see a Zorin tablet, I think that would be great! However, I like my stripped-down Android, as a phone it works well for me.

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It comes from Germany. And it offers a Multi-Boot Starter. It comes with Volla OS (Google-free Privacy OS) and Ubuntu Touch, where You can switch. And You can bring other OS' on it, too. There Website: