Zorin OS: Less change, more stability

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I've been using Zorin OS 17 since it came out and have found that this operating system is currently the perfect solution for me on my personal computers. I'm not a gamer, but I use my PC intensively for music and live radio broadcasts.

In the beginning, I tried too many things to customize Zorin or change various settings. Unfortunately, this often led to the system becoming unstable or not running properly at all. Now, I hardly change anything in Zorin OS 18—and lo and behold: everything runs super stable. My experience is quite clear: the less you “tinker” with the system, the more stable a Linux distribution runs.

Every PC on which I install Zorin first undergoes a functional test with the live version. If everything works fine there, I usually install the core version – which I personally really love.
If friends or acquaintances prefer a Windows or macOS-like design, I recommend the Pro version.

So far, everyone I know has been satisfied. Only on one PC—an Acer laptop—did Zorin OS 18 simply refuse to run properly. In that case, I switched to Linux Mint.

Otherwise, Zorin remains my absolute favorite.

I find the work of the Zorin brothers truly remarkable and would like to thank them once again for this great Windows alternative.

Thank you very much @AZorin @zorink :+1:

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I did that when I first installed Kubuntu. I went crazy with customizations and made a really cool looking system that periodically crashed. I then reset everything to factory default and it ran smoothly again. I think every Linux user has to do that at some point. Some desktop environments (such as Plasma) make that both easy and fun!

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It seems to be a universal rite of passage. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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Funny that I installed 18 Pro on three PCs without issue (until the flood of updates), but even 18 Core refused to install on an Acer laptop.

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Which Acer Laptop? spec?
Does it have same type of BIOS as the other PC's i.e. are they all UEFI and the Zorin bootstick created for GPT (not legacy MBR)?
Suggest you create a separate thread for this Acer Laptop installation issue (if not already done).

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It was UEFI. We have a mix of UEFI and BIOS PCs from Dell and Acer and I had no issue installing Zorin on them other than with Nvidia cards.
The install finally got to the end, but on restart it freaked out with an endless scroll of code.

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Sometimes installing without including Nvidia drivers works better, then can install Nvidia driver once installed.

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Tried both ways. They always had issues. No problems at all with AMD and Intel graphics