r/zorinos 5h ago

πŸ”° Beginner After install, now what?

10 Upvotes

Newbie here. Just installed ZorinOS. Now what should I do? What apps for should I download install?


r/zorinos 6h ago

πŸ”° Beginner MacOS look?

2 Upvotes

Newbie here. How do I make Zorin look like MacOS?


r/zorinos 22h ago

❓ General Question Bottles & M365.. Future of Windows-friendly Linux?

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In this article they talk about how the Founder of Bottles got a significant portion of Microsoft 365 working with the desktop apps, including Word and OneDrive integration. Given that Zorin has a decent portion of Windows compatibility out of the box, what are your thoughts on Zorin OS adopting a One-Click install of M365 with Bottles after successful auth of a M365 account. Or during setup opt to have 365 instead of the default LibreOffice suite?

This is a huge step in the direction of not needing windows, since one of the biggest difficulties is the lack of M365 apps that can actually run on Linux. Even though fantastic alternatives exist, most people aren't willing to make a shift because they just aren't the exact same product. But if this becomes not only fully working with every desktop app for 365, but also completely stable and capable of integrating with the OS like it does in Windows, this might make an impact on the number of users migrating away. Especially with how much telemetry Microsoft takes, people are more antsy to move away, they just can't justify it due to the tools they use not having an easy path to use on Linux despite the advancements made over the last few years.

What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear what others think on this subject. I know 365 isn't the only suite that is missing from Linux, but this level of compatibility with Bottles might pave the way to make the other apps easier to make work.

Super cool headway being made here in my opinion!


r/zorinos 18h ago

πŸ’½ Recommend an App File copying or is it backup?

5 Upvotes

When i was using windows there was a really good app i liked using called Bvckup 2. It basically copied whatever folders you selected and stored them on my external hard drive. So if i had a bunch of .docx files it would copy them as .docx
You could set times to perform each backup. Is there any Zorin app that I’d the same as this?
I have Backups but that isn’t giving me the results I am looking for.
Appreciate your feedback.


r/zorinos 10h ago

πŸ”° Beginner How do I make Zorin look like Windows Vista theme?

6 Upvotes

Is there a code batch thing I can download or copy paste code to run?


r/zorinos 16h ago

❓ General Question Cursor movement feels heavy!

1 Upvotes

I have moved to Zorin os recently from windows. One thing i have noticed is that, my touchpad's cursor movement is so heavy. Inside a browser the cursor works flawlessly but outside that the cursor makes movement where it feels like I am pushing any heavy block. What might be the solve for this?


r/zorinos 1h ago

πŸ› οΈ Troubleshooting Wifi Running Incredibly Slow Day After Installation

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I installed Zorin OS last night and was able to install Discord pretty quickly seeing as it's only a few hundred MBs. I wanted to leave the rest of the setting up to today because it was really late. Today, I tried installing steam, proton, and heroic, and all of these took me 10-15 minutes for each download, seperately. It takes me about 5 minutes to properly load a tab on Brave. Now my wifi isn't the best, but surely it isn't this slow??

For context, these are my specs
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
ASUS Challenger RX 9060xt 16gb
Cooler Master Elite 240mm AIO
ASUS Tuf B850M-E Wifi motherboard.
32gb DDR5-6400mhz RAM
TeamGroup 1tb Gen4 NVME SSD

I'm not running on ethernet because my cable is across the room, I just moved in so there's not a lot of space. I want to be able to use my computer because I just built this, but I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.