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iforgotpassword

I know linux always had the problem of being unappealing to normal people, so I guess it's good folks are trying to make pretty websites for their distros, working on pretty and consistent themes, sane defaults, layman terms etc.

But does that mean you have to completely hide any technical information from your website? It maybe I'm just too dumb to find it?

What distro is that based on? Indirectly mentioned by saying the Ubuntu apt repo is available.

What's the DE based on? You certainly didn't create a new one. It looks like a reskinned KDE to me.

You mention how fast it is, and that the new release has been optimized for performance. How? Did you fork KDE, the kernel, or apply some clever configurations, or did you get that performance for free because upstream just optimized their code? How is this different from installing Ubuntu and adding flatpack and your KDE theme?

Again, first impression is this is a great distro for my mom et al., but for a HN submission I ended up with more questions than answers.

I've distro-hopped for a few years, and I feel confident that I could answer your questions (even if that's not necessarily what you're asking):

>What distro is that based on? Indirectly mentioned by saying the Ubuntu apt repo is available.

It's based on Ubuntu, for the most part. You get apt and Snap, with flatpak out of the box, now.

> What's the DE based on? You certainly didn't create a new one. It looks like a reskinned KDE to me.

This distro is actually GNOME, with a large handful of shell extensions emulating the Windows look-and-feel.

> You mention how fast it is, and that the new release has been optimized for performance. How?

It's Linux. Even with all of the extras they pack on, memory usage is still under 1gig on most systems, with most also idling under 1% of CPU usage on the desktop. It's by no means the fastest distro I've ever seen, but it's snappy.

> Again, first impression is this is a great distro for my mom

Bingo!

It doesn't answer any real questions but for someone new coming to linux who has read zorin is a good starter for windows users... front page has a large blue download zorin os button it. click it, default to ultimate version and a blue download/buy zorin ultimate.

feels like the website was created by marketing department or a used car salesman.

I believe the feature table lists Xfce for the light version and Gnome for the other. https://zorinos.com/ultimate/

Zorin was my first distro (on Arch now), and it was a choice of Gnome or Xfce (both skinned to look the same). Aside from a few applications by Zorin, and many preinstalled, the theming and easy layout changing is the primary difference from Ubuntu I think.

I think it's for Windows converts. By keeping things similar, like the start menu position, it makes things more welcoming.

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