Old laptop got boosted. Wasn’t updated for 6 years. Microslop tried to install Win11, then said buy new hardware, then tried to install anyway. Didn’t worked. Zorin OS works great. Will also try out Lint Cinnamon, Cachy, Pop and some Arch.
Ah yes, Minux Lint. Great distro.
Totally compiled by myself!
don’t bother distro shopping. if it’s mainstream and has updated packages the only thing you lose by changing distros is time. almost everything u want can be done in your distro.
I use arch, btw
your PC is monitored and protected
why does that sound like a veiled threat
Because it is, especially if auto updates are enabled, even long before Microslop
Zorin is where I landed. Mint was very ugly in my view and the GUI “app store” for it was missing key programs I wanted. Zorin’s has had every program I want to install so far. Mint did “just work,” but Zorin did too.
GUI looks really good on this one!
FYI You can add more repositories to Mint’s manager. I do wish it included more out of the box but I suppose it’s faster as-is.
Cinnamon DE looks very…2008, yeah. Mint is also the only Stable distro for me to make it not just through installation from a live USB but actually install and load non-free nshitia drivers on an old GTX1060 with a corei5 7600. CachyOS is what I use and adore normally but I needed Stable for an infrequently used old PC. You’d think the main culprit would be the damned 1000 series GPU but nope that was only true for Debian and LMDE which I gave up on instead of fighting with. Figured it’d be faster to distro hop…nope!
OpenSUSE couldn’t handle the MSI B250 motherboard of all things, crash kernel panic couldn’t even boot into live USB. Fedora complained about missing CPU instructions but loaded live USB except the installer app would just crash when trying to open it. MX Linux would boot but then black screen after 5 minutes, not enough time to install non-free drivers and not even ttyl mode was functional.
Zorin was next on my list I’m curious to see lol. Linux hates this PC.
I got Q4OS on a 20 year old machine. Runs flawlessly
Linux Mint is definitely a plus, as it is easy to use and more free than Ubuntu and definitely more free than Zorin. It’s also vintage enough to run on older computers just fine, though I recommend MATE or XFCE spin for the RAM poor
Thanks, goes on my list, because specs of my laptop are pretty weak
Loving Zorin. I have Zorin on my second desktop and mint on my laptop.
Fedora+i3 brrrrrr
Is it named after Max Zorin?
Nice. Zorin has quickly become my favorite distro. Has exactly what’s needed out of the box, caters to practically anyone, smooth and easy to use. They do such a great job.
Yes! Looks very good so far. Totally digging it!
Great distro! Pretty and most everything just just works.
Can confirm. It was described as very user friendly, especially if you come from Windows. Can confirm this too!
