I just wanted to say thank you for stating that the Pro version is mainly for supporting the devs with some added fluff to say "thanks for the support!". Too many reviewers on YT have been sour on it and they should know better!

ABOUT TIME !!! We haven't seen a single video from you since last year!

In May I switched to Linux using Zorin OS 16.2. Although I prefer Linux Mint now, Zorin was great at getting me used to Linux. It was very familiar when switching from Windows 11 which I also liked.

I LOVE your Zorin videos!! I'm a diehard Mint guy, but this is the best case I've seen to change over to Zorin!! Thanks Mr. Barnatt!! Happy 2024!

A nice feature of the new Linux installers is that it tells you to unplug the USB dongle before rebooting and gives you the time to do it, before you were left guessing when to pull out the USB dongle.

We have a stack of old loaner laptops at my MakerSpace for visitors and classes; most with I3 processors and limited resources; and after your last Zorin video I tried and liked it very much to extend the usefulness of these machines.

I totally agree--Zorin OS 17 is the best Linux distro for Windows users like myself. It's the first Linux distro I've tried that could be completely installed without any need for Terminal command-line inputs to install drivers or software. Previously I tried Linux Mint and Zorin 16.2, and both of them required a difficult process to install the drivers for my USB wi-fi adapter. Zorin 17 installed the drivers automatically.

I used Zorin Lite on a decade old laptop as my daily driver for months last year - incredible how modern it feels while only using 500 megs of ram at idle, super useful for revitalizing old laptops for light home use.

I love your overviews. they get to the point and show off all the good stuff!

Mad. I didn't even know it was developed in Ireland, only down the road from me.

If I'm not mistaken, I may have mentioned it in another of your video's: since I found Ventoy, I stopped using Balena Etcher. You can put multiple ISO's an a single USB stick. (This comment is mainly for supporting the UKposts algorithms. ;) )

Love Zorin. What I run on my 10+ year-old laptop with very, very few issues. Less headaches than Windows, better performance than Windows (given the laptops capabilities), and lower cost (I bought the version to make a donation to the project). Thank you for the video. Love your videos.

I love Zorin. It's gorgeous. I wanted the more Gnome/Mac look, and it worked so well that I paid for the "Pro' version and upgraded. I have since purchased it 4 more times for other PCs and a couple of elderly family members that just need something to see pictures and videos with, etc. And honestly, to find good reasons to support them for such a fantastic desktop linux product. I was a Linux Mint user for years - always distro hopping trying to find that 'something missing'. PopOS was close, but as much as I liked Gnome, it was flaky the way they had it implemented. Zorin's gnome interface is perfect. Fast, everything is drag and drop groupable, able to be renamed, they have the menu editor right there to add / remove items and it works properly, etc. Just really well done. Really appreciate you doing this video. So glad someone did this without the poo-pooing on them for offering a paid version. They deserve every bit of it in my humble opinion.

It always makes my day when Chris does Zorin OS videos since it was him directly who is responsible for me switching over to Linux because of this Distro. I have been using Zorin OS 17 beta so i will now be updating to this version. I have noticed that the store manager where you download all your applications is much more smooth in it's operation and they polished all of the smaller details as outlined in the video. Honestly i'm not sure why people rave about Linux Mint so much when i personally believe that Zorin OS blows it away in all categories. Thank you again for promoting such a wonderful Distro that will persuade so many Window's users to switch over to a Linux due to it's ease of use and familiar utility.

Not only for Windows users. I have run Zorin 16 Pro and it simply is just a good, working Linux Distro. It does what's printed on the tin. Disclaimer: I uses Linux since the days of pre-1.0 Kernels...

I recently replaced Linux Mint with Zorin OS 17 Core on an old Mac mini and I’m very favorably impressed with the change!

Great to see Zorin still going. I remember trying it out in 2017/18 and back then it felt great as well. I'll have to give it another go after many years of improvements!

Linux has definitely matured over the years, as we can tell with Zorin 17. As always, looking forward to your next video!

Impressive! Always a fan of Mint, I have checked out Zorin a few times over the years and it's great to see it has matured so nicely. Gone are the days of scratching around for drivers like we used to have to. A Linux distro these days on a decent device really is a relevant windows replacement as a daily driver.

I would love to see 80% of the world using Linux within 5 years. I'm done with Microsoft, and Adobe. Linux distro's have such beautiful interfaces.

You are a great teacher! I tried Ubuntu a few years ago, it was OK, but I had difficulty with some of my peripherals. Keep up the great work, I look forward to your videos every week.

great video Chris!...I've also got Zorin OS 17 Pro...I tried the Beta first then upgraded with a fresh install.. thanks for the work you do...keep up the great content.

I’ve been using Zorin 17 for a couple of weeks now, very smooth. I even have jelly mode turned on. Thanks

I'm very much a Windows user but it's always very interesting to see what Linux is up to these days, honestly it looks very nice. If I didn't need the compatability of Windows I probably would be on Linux by now.

Nice to see you again, Chris. As always, an inviting Linux review. I'm between this and Mint. Both are excellent.

I've been running Zorin OS 17 on my Laptop, it's a great OS for it in my opinion - Nice clean, simple interface. :)

I switched to Zorin OS over a year ago due to a video you made on it. It was version 16. What appealed to me was its clean layout and pretty much an easy transition from Windows environment. I like it a lot more than Mint. Now I'm using 95% of my time Zorin. I don't miss Win. Linux is much snappier and looks right out of box especially with Thinkpads. Many thanks for directing me into the world of Linux.

Yet another awesome video, it's always nice to meet new Linux distros because they are worth of attention and most of us should start using them. I would also like to watch a video about how you manage to maintain your systems so neet and clean. Which are your secrets? The other days I was watching one of your silent pc build video where you upgraded a 10 year old PC and inside it was like it just came out from the delivery box. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic video as always! It looks very slick and straightforward to use!

Thanks Christopher, excellent video. Happy New Year to you!

Cool demonstration, thanks for continuing to spread awareness of Linux.

Thank you sir for this video, now with this OS. I can revive some of our old laptops. I've learned so much from you😊

Another amazing presentation Christopher, but IMHO it's an review/overview of Zorin OS 17, not "Linux for Windows Users". At the end of the day it's Linux for Linux users that like a similar look to Windows and nothing more. While that seems to be Zorin's aim, I fail to see how it's different to Cinnamon and pretty much all the other Linux distros out there. As primarily a Windows user, I can download a multitude of Distros that natively feel similar to Windows, while some using vanilla environments (like what Zorin uses) look nothing like and that's good. Desktop Linux has reached the significant milestone of being reliable enough to be used as a daily driver, but for many Chrome OS is a less capable but more robust alternative that is light on resources and (so long as it's compatible) can be amazingly responsive on the most lacking hardware. While those that embrace Linux will defend its honour with their life it has too many inconsistencies for the average Windows user to want to embrace. Many videos like this one highlight how configurable the UI is, like that's all Linux has. I have a TV with lots of options for picture and sound, but once I've got it set how I like I never need to visit those options again, just like the billion or so things I can change about my Linux interface. With the use of a free 3rd party app I can configure a Windows desktop to my liking (something akin to Apple's offering), the problem is that the original Windows configuration is about as good as it gets (obviously since many distros mimic it) and most people feel comfortable with that. Going off topic: I like the idea of a repository and a software centre, but only if I can find every piece of Linux software there. This convenience falls down when you need to find something that doesn't exist in the distro's repository, then it's either downloading an installable package from a web-page or it's off to the command line to follow randomtrade-off's

Zorin, Zorin....didn't they have an advertising campaign involving a blimp flying over Silicon Valley and the Golden Gate Bridge? All seriousness, great video. I've never used Linux, but it looks fascinating.

Wow, this is a great OS. Thank you for the comprehensive review, as always!

Definitely going to try it out. Love how their start menu looks :)

Greetings. I've just recently set up Linux Mint Edge 21 for getting newer kernels. Thought of trying Zorin, and you've made this review video. Thank you.

Thanks Chris for a thoroughly interesting review of Zorin OS 17, I really like the clean look of it & if I ever switch from Mint this would be a good choice. For me I'd use the core version, once the install is completed I do love to tinker in the settings, adding the software for my use case.

Without doubt, yours are the best tutorials on UKposts by a country mile. Thank you.

You should've showed off the jelly mode! It's absolutely adorable, all the windows flutter like jelly whenever you move them! 🍮

Another great video! Since this is an OS which is cited as good for users coming from Windows I wish you would talk a little about the Zorin support for windows apps feature, and even more, about the use of Wine, which Zorin uses, and playonlinux (which also uses Wine, I'm sure you know). I appreciate all your hard work planning, recording, editing and posting your videos. Thank you very much!

I last tried a desktop distro of linux a few years ago and frankly it made me want to scratch my eyes out with a fork. Your video convinced me to check this distro out on a spare, but relatively modern laptop I had lying around (10th gen i5 cpu). I got my Windows browser (vivaldi) working easily, got discord working, I even got the latest version of Minecraft installed! I found myself using the thing for general desktop work all day without even really thinking about it not being Windows. Honestly, very impressed! Thankyou for this video!

Great vid as usual Chris. I've been tinkering with different versions of Linux because I definitely plan to make the switch when Windows 10 becomes obsolete. Zorin 17 looks very promising. Luckily, the core programs I need to function work on Linux, so the switch for me will be a bit easier than for some.

Great presentation! Outstanding. Thank you

Perhaps as a follow-up, you can do a video on how to use WINE in Zorin OS. While I've never had much use for WINE, there are people who want to run Windows applications. And since they choose Zorin OS because of the Windows-like interface, they may find a video on using WINE to be useful. PS: I'm glad you didn't break the laws of Explaining Computers demonstrations. I doubt Mr. Scissors and Stanley the Knife could go your bail.

Wow. Linux has come a long way. I used it about 20 years ago to run some apps that were only available on linux. Splat, a vhf propagation predictor, and Ethereal, now Wireshark. This was on a SUSE distro. It was very difficult to work with for a Windows user. I loaded Zorin 17 last week and was up and running instantly. Well, almost instantly. I am truly impressed. Thanks for your help and encouragement. I now have a tired old Lenovo running like new.

Great way to start 2024. Very informative and as always, broken down to make the information easy to process.

Looks really interesting! Definitely going to try it out. Thank you for switching to dark mode. I never use light mode, as it hurts my eyes really badly.

Hi mate. Being a 73 Yr old numpty who has only ever used windows I have found this to be extremely helpful. Its a shame I can only put one thumbs up on it as I must have watched it about 20 times already as I fully intend, in the future, to fully migrate to this system. Thank you once again.😊

thanks for the film As always very clear and helpful. It looks a nice distro.....

Thank you for your time and effort to make this video and share your knowledge with us. Greetings from Croatia.

Thanks Peter great video might try it for the wife. This will really help those who use Windows go to Linux, really enjoy your channel immensely.

The appearance settings is very appealing. Cheers! 👍

Good morning! Zorin is one of my favorite Bond villains. I'm sorry, I had to. 😆

Thanks for another excellent review. I was inspired to give Zorin 17 a try and it certainly is a tidy desktop implementation. I only had to open a terminal once! Performance was perhaps a bit disappointing but as it was on a lowly and old Gigabyte Brix mini-computer I was probably expecting too much.

I installed Zorin 17 on My 2011 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM 500GB SSD and a secondary 750GB SSD and I loved it.

Great way to start the year Chris! Happy New Year.

Zorin OS 17 may just be the new OS for me since I currently have an older Laptop with Windows 10 Pro. Thank you for sharing. ^~^

Ahh, so happy the YT algorithm finally decided to show me your videos again, I've missed you!

Another wonderful review, thank you.

I just switched to Zorin 17 from Windows 11. Running it on a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop i5 10th Gen with 32GB DDR4. I'm testing apps like Lutris + Wine and so far the process has been quite smooth sailing.

Excellent video as always! Not as many creators here - use this, use that and if you watch more of their videos every distro is awesome (same with mini PCs and gadgets)...

This is the best demonstration of how truly tempting it would be to switch over, with it looking and feeling very much the same as your desired layout. The ability to install side by side Windows makes translation easier by being gradual, allowing for full climatization before making the big leap.

Comprehensive overview thank you for sharing

I’ve been trying W11, Mint and Zorin on my Dell XPS15 laptop. Using each for a month at a time in that order. For me the winner was Mint and I’m pleased to have just wiped the SSD and reinstalled it cleanly, this time for keeps. I would have put Zorin a close second and W11 is just poor UI with added bloat, unending slow updates and still underlying insecurity. It’s taken a while, but we finally have a genuine giant killer in Mint.

For me, I'm excited about that desktop cube switching. I really like that stuff.

Zorin OS is one of the few linux distros that come with full screen preview of running applications as default, which is the aero mode in windows since windows 7, something I value as a productivity tool. It is also standard in linux KDE desktop and in Gnome with the extension Dash To Panel.

Happy New Year to you & Mr. Scissors!

Oh my! So many options, so little time. As a relatively new Linux user (Win11 drove me to switch), I keep thinking, maybe I should have installed Zorin OS instead of Linux Mint, or now even LMDE. I know, I can try them easily enough using Ventoy or maybe one of the web based trial systems like DistroSea. Again, so many options. It all makes my head spin!

Thank You for this video!

Going to send some money to Zorin, even thou not loading at this time. Important to support nonWindows efforts. Thanks for the video.

Looking forward to the Garuda OS video!

For windows gamers still on the fence, it's really easy installing steam and they have a lot of games running native on linux, and a good portion of the windows games also run with the help of proton. And it's really easy to do without any command line stuff. In steam you just go to the game settings and enable emulation with proton, and then you can install the game and (hopefully) play it. There are still some games that won't work, but in my experience that was maybe 2 out of 10 games.

Because I had two failed attempts before successfully installing Zorin 17 Pro, I had two annoying extra links in my GRUB that did not work. After upgrading Zorin 17 Pro recently, the two extra links disappeared, and now, I only have Zorin 17 Pro or Windows 10 options. Thank you for your regular UKposts productions. 73, Ian

It's not so simple as you would like to think. Already 10 years I have been looking possibilities to switch from Windows to Linux, however as long there are no simple/user friendly option to use Windows Programs I cannot do it. I have been looking a suitable alterantive to Photoshop (for RAW images) and I haven't found usable one. Same with a CAD SW. If you just use PC for browsing or Office then Linux is OK, but otherwise it's very painful or often even not possible to switch.

Hi Christopher, I have an older (2014) MacBook Air on which I wanted to install either Ubuntu or LinuxMint. I tried both and both had the same problem, wifi didn't work. Not surprising as Mint is based on Ubuntu of course. I went to both websites and although both had several workarounds, nothing worked. Then I remembered the excellent video about Zorin OS, and I downloaded and installed version 17. And this time, everything worked immediately right after the installation. As the MacBook Air has an i7 processor and 8 GB ram it works absolutely flawlessly. Even UKposts in HD fullscreen without any dropped frames. Very happy with Zorin!

I have dabbled with Linux with many Distros over the years, the Distro that won me over was Ubuntu back when they would mail out physical disks, I ordered a 10 pack, loved it and handed out the extras to people I knew. Since then I have always kept an Ubuntu PC running, I have tried many others and even bought a 2nd PC once that came with Mint which was really good, these days I prefer Zorin, I used it on a small HP notebook which gave it more life than what the factory installed Windows 7 Starter could do, that old thing is still in use today without Windows.

Thank you Chris for an interesting video - I'm not a Linux or Windows user, but I can see the appeal.

Thanks Chris for another excellent review. Zorin 17 looks really polished and worth a look. I assume it is only for X86 chips. I guess I’ll have to try the pro version on my Miniforum computer since my scrolling privileges were taken away…😂😂! Have a great 2024 and week.🎉

For me, this is the best operating system I've been using it for three years and I'm happy

I've been on an off on Linux because of personal and business reasons. Couple months back I went full on Linux and get rid of windows for good. I was using ZorinOS 16 and decided to install ZorinOS 17. I'm enjoying it. I recommend it. There are just couple of things I don't like. 1) If you choose a language and choose a time zone on a country with a different language for example let's say you choose English and choose a time zone in China it turns date&time, measurements etc. into Chinese language and format without asking you. This happened on ZorinOS 16 as well. 2) if you change your language and keyboard settings after the installation it still keeps the installation keyboard layout at the logins screen. I don't know if this is specific to ZorinOS or not. But that's what I experienced on ZorinOS.

Thank you, for this video, doc!

I will try Manjaro Vulcan soon... There are not many words I can use to describe Linux today... I showed my PC with Xero Linux to a young lady that uses Windows where she worked... Her very words were: "Why wasn't I told about this?" That explains it all...thanks.

Zorin OS 17 is a LOT Smoother than 16.3. It also syncs well across its multiple Software Updaters. This has got to be one of the BEST Linux Distros for people who have been using Windows OS all their lives and want to switch to Linux. Most of the Windows shortcuts work in Zorin. There's no need to fiddle with Terminal or Commands, but the option certainly exists. Overall Zorin is an excellent option to revive an older Windows desktop or laptop.

Ubuntu Jammy is just ridiculously stable and smooth on legacy hardware, I'm glad to see it get (what's the word, forked?) into other versions. This old laptop would be in the bin by now if it weren't for Ubuntu and it's kin. Another excellent video!

Impressive video. Reading the title I was concerned this might be yet another "hey windows user, you should give Linux a try". Instead it is a very comprehensive description of a mature Linux distribution, useful to everybody interested in computing.

Zorin so far appears really great! I can access all the drives which I created on Windows along with many of the files.

Thank you for the demonstration. I'm most comfortable using Mint and Cinnamon and plan to continue using them. Should something change that makes the current OS impossible or unenjoyable to use, Zorin looks like a great alternative. It's always great to see what other distro developers are doing.

9:09 - G-nome. You've now got me trained to look out for these mentions. Lovin your channel Chris! 🙂

I recently got an ancient Dell Studio laptop and threw Zorin OS 17 Core on there and it works amazingly well. In fact, I also put it on my other three ancient laptops and they all work really well. This isn't related to Zorin, but I can't recommend Ventoy enough. I have it installed to a little portable HDD and it lets you boot from any ISO images you want. I have about 20 different Linux ISOs and a Windows 11 as well and all of them boot perfectly, including Zorin. So much easier than having to create a separate bootable USB drive over and over just to try out different distros.

Thank you for the review I'm glad to see that Linux has matured enough to reach 4 percent of the PC users although text editing, photo editing and video game are working fine now, I hope to see better video editing for the future

Zorin is looking better with each release. It is looking great! If it wasn't for me enjoying Linux Mint Debian Edition. I would give Zorin another look. I will probably check it out anyway. I like looking at the improvements in the various distros.

Thank you! I've pretty much been sour with windows since they discontinued support for XP! While I didn't mind windows 10, I was still annoyed with the lack of control and lack of privacy. My recent laptop I tried Ubuntu and while I imagine if I had given it more time I could've gotten better at it, I was to the point of installing windows in a partition just to avoid headaches with certain things. I came across your video and the next morning I installed Zorin. So far it has been amazing. Especially for my wife who is not computer savvy. Thank you sir!

Chris, Thank you for a very informative video. May I suggest that when you accelerate some operations on screen you give an indication to how long it actually takes. When doing OS installs, I have often had to wait very long times for whatever reason and having a sense of whether things are stalled is helpful.

Thanks again for your amazing linux distros videos I have finally switched to Linux thanks to Zorin OS

I have been using ZORIN OS 17 PRO, I love it. I highly recommend to anyone 🙂

Nice OS I'll have to try it on my test rig. Thanks

Hey Christopher, happy new year :)

What's nice is that full desktop color calibration works in this distro. My wide gamut monitor is automatically calibrated to sRGB on default.

Very interesting. I will have to give this a try via USB before too long.