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What even is zorin os lol I've never even heard of it. Normies really do surprise me often like this, like they mathematically calculate to pick the strangest least expected things through the most alien of mechanisms. Delightful news!
Zorin has been around for a long time. See distrowatch.
Been a while since I distrohopped heh
Remember when Covid happened, and suddenly every normie was using Zoom, instead of existing, well-established platforms?
Yeah!
I really don't get why you wouldn't just use mint coming from windows. who is making these recs? I only hear "mint! mint!" in my circles
I know at least one person who has had a couple of false starts with migrating to Linux, is now on Zorin and thinks Zorin is much more polished looking than Mint.
Yeah but that's the thing they're in completely different circles. They might as well be from another planet to us lol
Zorin OS has been around since 2009