Decade of the Linux Desktop. It’s here guys!
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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Swapped over to Mint a couple days ago, it plays ATOM RPG so I am contented with my slave jank.
How popular is it against other distros? First I've heard of it (admittedly doesn't say much since I'm used to the older ones), which makes me wonder how close to a million people did. Did influencers spread the word or something?
I've noticed Zorin does a lot of marketing and it comes in waves, you won't hear anything for months then it'll be everywhere for a few days.
So... a few months before this, Linux had been noted to have just tipped 5% desktop market share...
What's it going to be like now? 6%? 10%!?
1.5 billion windows users, another million transfers to 1.499 billion windows and +0.001 billion Linux. The windows number was purely from Google, no validation has been done.
Mhmm. Though Zorin's only one distro. And not a really well known one. Fun to speculate around all the unknown variables.
I switched from Windows 10 to Mint. While there is a steep learning curve with basic things like adding an icons to the menu, I'm wishing I made the move earlier. There is a noticeable performance improvement with Stable Diffusion.
I'm just waiting till I can install SteamOS honestly. Love my steam deck, and wanted to turn my old win 10 PC into a Linux machine but has issues getting any distro loaded because I'm dumb and it's old. Hoping that when they release SteamOS for the chumps I'll be able to work it though probably will just be left holding an old win 10 pc lol.
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I mean I downloaded 4 to try out.
There are two things that are keeping me attached to Windows - my PC not supporting Win11, and Photoshop. My god, if anyone can get a copy of Photoshop to work with Linux, I will say goodbye to Microsoft immediately.
(Yes, I've tried GIMP, Krita, et al. They didn't click for me. This is what 24 years of working with Photoshop does to a mf)
There is literally a "photoshop UI" plugin for GIMP, did you try it?
(Also, virtual machines/wimboat exist).
I was not aware. I'll give that a try, thanks
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For work or personal use?
If its for work then consider having two machines, using windows for the work machine and Linux for the personal one.
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Serious question, I'm a basic linux user (commandline and shell scripting, crontab, python...) what would I see/feel as different if I switched to Zorin OS?
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Imo, the fact you know what crontab is indicates your a bit more than a 'basic' user. You can give yourself more credit than that ;).
Anyway, like the other commenter said, depends where your switching from but Zorin is pretty much making Linux as easy to use as possible. They even have a wrapper for bottles that makes installing windows apps with wine easier. I quite like it and would be what I'd suggest to someone who wants a general purpose computer. It's not great for gaming though as they don't use super up-to-date packages so performance is lacking. That being said, it looks great and makes things as easy as possible for noobies
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