Zorin OS 16.1 | One Of The Most Polished Distributions

[@TylersTechNow]

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[@juanroldan4379]

Nicely done video. I am introducing my family to Linux using Zorin. Its working quite well.

[@aydinal07]

Zorin blew my mind.....excellent distribution. Switched from Manjaro xfce to Zorin permenantly. Actually I liked pop_os too but Zorin won my heart.

[@bigbay1159]

Did you go core or Pro?

[@keyboard_g]

The font selection and rendering looks particularly clean in Zorin.

[@LoganT547]

Yep, the font is Inter. It's very similar to SF Pro, except Inter is FOSS. I use it on every distro I install since it's so clean.

[@clemradio]

@@LoganT547 as much as we might hate Apple, there's one thing they do right: UI. Really. Even transitions and all. Samsung phones unfortunately change their UI a lot every new version.

[@runitralph]

So glad I subscribed to this channel. Whenever a new distro or distro update is released, I know I don't have to resort to distro hopping because Tyler will cover it (and all versions of it) thoroughly 😁

[@CGA111]

The first distro reviewer that understands that dark themes are hard to look at on KZbin, that alone is worth an upvote.

[@TylersTechNow]

Haha yeah KZbin’s video processing always makes my videos featuring dark themes look awful!

[@Exponat87]

It's glad to see that project help my country! Thanks for supporting Ukraine!

[@AmazingJ1985]

You have to check the box to opt out of the census. The option is ‘Don’t participate in the census’ so Zorin opt you into this by default. 🙃

[@TylersTechNow]

Oooops 😂

[@AmazingJ1985]

Great to see you back as well! Been a while 😃

[@TylersTechNow]

Yeah back to regular uploads again. Got a few already lined up over the next few days. So we should be all good (:

[@AmazingJ1985]

@@TylersTechNow Awesome. The new Fedora dev with GTK4 looks good!

[@TylersTechNow]

Yeah all on the list (:

[@TFSned]

It's great they include the flatpak versions of applications in the install. In most other distros I have to uninstall the binary version of LibreOffice so I can replace it with the up to date flatpak version.

[@PapasFilms]

0:22 I think they stole that line from Apple 😆

[@ErikTheHeathen]

Zorin is what got me to switch from Windows to Linux 👍

[@BimBims]

How about application? Like for editing OCR pdf? How did you on Zorin? In windows ecosystem there a tons free apps for that, but i cant see any like that on linux

[@AdamWrighter]

could you consider covering multi-monitor multi-dpi support and fractional scaling support in your distro reviews? this is one of the most important features for me and no distro gets it right so far.

[@AdamWrighter]

@Abu the last time I tried KDE (a year or 2 ago, maybe) the "fractional scaling" was really just a strange combo of text size adjustment and *some* UI elements being scaled up. but its support across apps was really patchy. firefox wasn't scaled at all, for example (and setting default page zoom is not a good workaround for me)

[@kiloneie]

Manjaro KDE/Endeavour OS KDE all work great with multi monitors and one monitor being 144hz and other 60hz.

[@GundulmuGaming]

what about printer such as EPSON is the driver already installed ?

[@mobeen3522]

My fav distros: Rank 1 pop os Rank 2 elementary os - zorin os Rank 3 feren os Note: the Rank is in order of my recommendation level to other people (It's not only for new users, it's for all users) Edit2: my own preference is feren os

[@mkm1015]

I'm stunned by this Zorin distro. I don't use Linux because of Photoshop, Adobe XD and Illustrator but wow you can see that a good UI designer put time to design this. Ubuntu and Zorin are beautiful but lots of Linux fanatics hate them because they are "selling themselves" whatever that means. I feel like 90% of Linux community doesn't want Linux to look professional and aesthetically pleasing to attract windows users. They enjoy if average user finds Linux too hard for daily use which is really weird.

[@diddymies]

40$ is pretty much for a community which is based on free development especially when the whole zorin 16 can be easily tecreate because its based on free packages. But if you want use Adobe photoshop, you can run older version with wine or if u want latest you could run in VM. Vm could be good to keep files safe and yout system clean to keep VM files seperate. Also dual booting is a option.

[@GreenMeanie101]

Can you mount icons to the right on the Desktop and add a home folder to the desktop when using the MacOS theme without having to use Gnome Extensions?

[@BadenPowellTux]

I was excited at the beginning but I made the big mistake of updating while I was traveling and the update totally destroyed my wifi drivers and other things. I used to love zorin I even had the "premium" one but looks like updates are not stable enough. Time to go back to something else, I was thinking about mx Linux or endeavouros.

[@TylersTechNow]

That seems like an exception and not the rule. Zorin has always been pretty solid for me. EndeavourOS is decent too though one of the better Arch based distros (:

[@senil5906]

Pclinuxos , and don't have problem again !

[@nelsdzyre6778]

I'm sure you can use of the snapshot to roll back. "the update totally destroyed my wifi drivers and other things." sounds like Windows typical issue too. Just rollback.

[@mikephillips5551]

Funny thing is all the extra's that is installed in the pro version is installable from the repo's !!

[@BeeBombard]

So inhave zorin 12.4. Can I install this over top of this? What's the difference between these two? Thanks

[@jamesbarruga7166]

i have a problem with my bluetooth. its only keep searching but nothing found. also in this distro you cannot use your laptop as wifi extender.

[@LiveBenchmarks]

I was wondering about exactly this

[@ЙорданКирачен]

Great Video! I simply love this OS.

[@altermetax]

At 3:51 actually the option says "Don't participate in the census", that means that the census is actually enabled by default and you have to tick that to disable it :D

[@joaovictorcesa9443]

Hope you're doing good :)

[@gawaineross6119]

Every tutorial I watch about Linux distributions make it seem simple. I run into the Batchelder installation, which never seems to recognize my DVD or flash drive. I thought my Zorin distro could update to Zorin 16.1 without this annoying step, but no luck.

[@tekdragon]

I want to love Zorin OS. I even bought the Pro of 16.0 over a year ago, but still on Gnome 3.3x? :( I'm sorry, but mandatory/forced window-to-window snapping is just an automatic disqualification for me. This is fixed on any of the modern Gnome 4x DEs.

[@melchizedek_v]

Is live usb with persistence possible

[@Lp-ze1tg]

So 32 bit system won't work?

[@m5than]

Icons not being centered with respect to display in xfce panel is an xfce problem. Don't know why no devs care to fix it. The items just get centered within the available free space in the panel and there's no way to center items with respect to the whole length of the panel.

[@tigerscott2966]

I have never been able to get Zorin to work. Linux Mint works on any computer I use old or new.

[@BeLiaLx85]

Is it possible to get the free version and buy / upgrade After installation?

[@diddymies]

not recommended. But I still would just go for Core/free and make yourself any desktop you want. You can easily costumize Gnome to anything u want. All the pro features are easily recreate on core for free because all the packages are free.

[@BeLiaLx85]

@@diddymies thankyou

[@outforbeer]

could you play steam games on zorin ? I want to play total war : warhammer I

[@fredrik2008]

Zorin used to look reallly good, but the transparancy on the bottom bar is way to mutch they need to increase it or make it solid.

[@encapsulatio]

Could you test please WayDroid Linux ? Having android apps on Linux running fast is such a big deal.

[@ferotakis]

Do they fixed the headphone output buzzing noise issue? I think Realtek related

[@leobardek]

It is beautiful but it uses kernel 5.13... I own ryzen cpu which benefits a lot from kernel 5.17 soo good distro for Intel users?, too bad that team decided to base it on Ubuntu :/ If it was based on rpm/dnf distro e.g. Fedora it would be my one and only choice of os.

[@diddymies]

you can manually upgrade your kernel. If you can boot atleast then you should be good. Im using latest Zen kernel. Pretty straight forward easy installation. No problems so far. Ofc i have just 3600 or you could compile yourself the iso and just make it that it installs latest kernel scratch.

[@KremsonKhan]

love the zorin os coming from windows this is first time switchin to linux for good!

[@heimdalljk]

xero linux ?

[@AlphanPeter]

Zorin. 15. Hurt my eyes to bright. Maybe I try zorin 16 to see if they fix it. Better themes options would be great too.

[@diddymies]

you can change themes/icons etc freedom of gnome.

[@eonshade6297]

I fully agree with this distro being too bright, not good for eyes at all. They should ship it with a darker theme, and make the light theme slightly darker because it is like I am staring directly into the Sun.

[@kychemclass5850]

Zorin is very nice I paid for the pro 16 version, but the lack of control to make the taskbar/panel as I wanted it (without huge spaces) made me migrate to Mint (Cinnamon).

[@diddymies]

Bro its Gnome, you can change anything what you want.

[@kychemclass5850]

@@diddymies I tried, but didn't (still don't?) have the skills to do it. I was pretty new to Linux But thanks for affirming it can be done. I'll have a tinker when I reload it next time. Does Gnome Tweaks facilitate it?

[@creaturaumana1504]

@@kychemclass5850 not really, but you can install some extensions!

[@peterbreis5407]

Thank you Tyler for reading out loud what was on the screen. You know your target Linux audience, but you need to keep up the good work and keep pointing at the words, you gave up after a while.

[@bertosudu9506]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@melanovapedia7924]

why fork form ubuntu instead debian tho? sigh...

[@diddymies]

nothing wrong on ubuntu

[@Poison0444]

Hey there unfortunately, i need to leave this comment, in the past one week i was so confident, that i`ll change the windows to some of the new linux based system that you cannot imagine, don`t get me wrong, i`m trying to do that since ubuntu was 6.04(i have basic knowledge), you can do the math, so in the past week i have tried zorin, fedora, pop os, ubuntu and kubuntu, all of them with the latest versions. and i had a similar problem bluetooth and VPN, i have keychorn k2, keyboard that is working flawless in windows, specially ON THE LOGIN SCREEN, if you want to do that you need to do research on the internet how to do that, hey it`s a asus dongle, it`s not just some dongle, dongle which is working with bluetooth 5.0 and with which i can use the keyboard and my mouse at the same time, in the distributions that i tried, for example zorin i didn`t even had a chance with the default installed bluetooth package to detect the keyboard neither the mouse. So tried to some different option and at least i managed to connect the keyboard, but then come the second problem enabling bluetooth on login screen so i can type my password, but i didn`t manage to do that here he vpn was ok, in the other distros i was able to connect both. but either keyboard or mouse was not working ok, in some of the them the network-manager (the default) was not capable to established connection via VPN, yes with some adjustment in all of them i was able to make it work. And now imaginе someone without this basic knowledge, i`m not trying to be a hater or something like that, i`ll be really happy someday to move into this world, but every time that i want to migrate everything to "linux" there are these small obstacles, the will take your time instead of doing something that you want to do. But since the last stable version of ubuntu 18.04 i still have it on my latop i see l lot`s of improvement, specially for zorin i really like it but like i said with this things i cannot spend hours to search something that is already working. Anyhow keep going with the work you do, i thing we will have something great in the next years, or why not with next stable release after one month :) CHeers

[@trachinusdraco]

It's okay if you don't like customizing themes.

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

I don’t really care about Ukraine. What about the bombings of Russian majority villages in Ukraine? Keep politics out if this.

[@peterpumpkineater301]

Zorin is a great OS especially for those moving from Windows. Clean, polished and works well. I wish companies and software writers to just leave their politics behind supporting the current thing and get on with being productive. There are always 2 sides to the story and as per usual with the entire middle east saga the US and NATO are at fault and 2 blame for what's going on currently. The old saying now, "Go Woke, Go Broke"!

[@clemradio]

Totally agree with you. These kind of Ukraine fundraising smell (stinks?) a lot like GAFAM. Linux Mint is also very well polished and keep on being politically neutral.

[@froglicker9267]

I didn't come here to watch Ukraine politics

[@dalewr38]

I just want to thank Zorin for supporting the Azov Nazi battalion in Ukraine. Very brave of them to openly support Nazi's in these politically correct times.

[@publicname]

Ruski detected!

[@regulargamedev3295]

Omg so much support for Ukraine, where Nazi Azov is legal and part of political parties

[@stefanosm7534]

This one is luggy and buggy like hell i

[@MDNH]

Your videos are awesome! but your channel's logo is so ugly. Change it please

[@TylersTechNow]

Haha make me one. Jokes I’ll update everything soon

[@LaurieFloodTeacher]

Who cares? I'm really glad you're back. I enjoy your videos. Keep them coming.

[@TylersTechNow]

Haha nah it’s getting pretty dated now. Is due an update (:

[@gtPacheko]

at least you said please 🤣 is this guy your boss Tyler?

[@MDNH]

@@gtPacheko 😆

[@to_nisam_ja]

You have to opt out of the census. They reversed the words ‘Don’t participate in the census’. Despicable move. I'm not installing this Zorin crap.

[@armynyus9123]

Summary for me: Should I ever leave my tiling wm: xfce4 has it all.

[@povilasbrilius]

Peaceful like #bullshit giving #nofuck and embarking on #Ubuntu #LTS approach like it was for the no use of #nosuspensionsupport 🥝🎇👖👜

[@forgingicehole4750]

Whatbullshit, politically driven advertising to blackmail the emotionally lied to.