Zorin OS 16 - Hackdot

Re:Zorin OS 16 by outside1234 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:46AM (#26841639)

Is this Linux under the hood?

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Re:Zorin OS 16 by thih9 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:57AM (#26841678)

Yes.

> Zorin OS is a personal computer operating system designed and promoted for users new to Linux-based computers. (...) The new editions continue to use the Ubuntu-based Linux kernel and GNOME or XFCE interface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorin_OS

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Re:Zorin OS 16 by theamk on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:03AM (#26841706)

This is an Ubuntu with extra packages.

I thunk here is a repo with all the extra packages that this OS variant has: https://launchpad.net/~zorinos/+archive/ubuntu/stable

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Re:Zorin OS 16 by fouuler on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:39AM (#26842925)

Why isn't this just a desktop environment?

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Re:Zorin OS 16 by npteljes on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:18AM (#26843710)

For the out of the box experience, I'd think.

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Re:Zorin OS 16 by Flex247A on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:19AM (#26841770)

Yeah, I didn't want to install Ubuntu then because it looked ugly. Zorin and Elementary were really appealing to me then.

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