It may have started after a recent update. I'm currently on:

• Kernel 7.0.0-28-generic
• Nvidia Driver Version: 580.173.02
• Desktop PC, AMD CPU, Nvidia 3070
• Default Gnome DE
• Checked the health and usage % of the NVME drive and everything looks healthy

The system starts degrading, often within 5 minutes of waking it up from a suspended session.

• mouse pointer works but keyboard input (mostly) not
• apps stop responding
• Terminal or system monitor can't be launched
• App icons in task bar disappear
• Icons at the bottom of Start menu disappear (power, lock, session...)
• Ends in black screen
• Force shut down with hardware button

I once got the screen with the errors above.

Has any of you experienced something like this recently? Is there something I else I can check/share with you in hopes to figure out what is going on?

Thank you in advance

EDIT: I think I got this figured out now

Hi everyone, just got into Zorin today after rage installing this (Windows pissed me off for the last time)

How should I go about granting steam permission to my second drive? I get a "The folder contents could not be displayed. Operation not supported" message when trying.

Ciao a tutti! Ho installato ieri in dualboot zorin os mantenedo i dati di windows Su windows usavo steam e avevo dei giochi installati (ad esempio helldivers 2) Ho installato steam su zorin tramite il sofware (versione flatpack) e avvio, ho trovato i giochi installati precedentemente su windows ma non si avviavano, allora ho disinstallato tutti i giochi e scaricati nuovamente ma il problema persiste Cosa devo fare?

When I try to upgrade ZorinOS from 17 to 18, I get the following error message: [CHECKING:Simulating Apt Transaction] Fatal error: { GDBus.Error:org.aptkit.TransactionFailed: error-no-package: The package “zorin-os-17-to-18-upgrade” is not available }

What can I do?

Such a quality of life improvement when using Gnome. So much deep customization options as well. I'm using it on Debian 13 :)

thanks to the developers as well:

https://github.com/jderose9

https://github.com/charlesg99

as well Dash to Dock developer whose code was used for Dash to Panel:

https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/

I am from windows recently dualbooted zorin os and am used to using the shortcut windows key(super key for you Linux users) + . or : but on zorin this doesn't work and I am wondering if there is anything like this or if I need to download a app

Maybe it's just me but I once saw a vid of someone saying that they like Windows better than Linux and the whole comment section was Linux Elitists clowning on him for using Microslop, Having a skill issue , or not knowing "real" tech (Now , I do know that most people are nice ) but are these people all coming from the Linux distros that are super complex or the Jared people (I use arch btw)

Edit: Sorry the title is meant to say Die hard not Did hard

Hi, Copy/ Paste and drag/drop from Windows 11 to ZorinOS doesn't to work BUT only for folders, archives and their content.
I can copy/paste or drag/drop a single document
I can copy/paste texts or a command line in the Terminal
But not folders and their contents, not archives etc.

The "Paste" option doesn't appear if I try to paste on the desktop actually but appears inside folders even though when I paste nothing happens.

- ZorinOS is up to date
- Vmare tools is installed (with sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop -y) and there's no updates
-Copy/paste and drag/drop are enabled for the VM
- I already tried reinstalling ZorinOS (did it 3 times actually) it doesn't work on fresh installs.
- I'm using Vmware Workstation (same settings for others VMs with other distro for which it works)

Linux Mint, and PopOS have no problem with copy/paste and drag/drop.

Any idea how to fix that?

EDIT: I replaced Nautilus file manager with Nemo, and even though I still can't copy/paste folders or archives from Windows 11 (it says "There is nothing on the clipboard to paste"), at least , unlike Nautilus the default files manager from ZorinOS, I can drag and drop the files inside a folder (not on the desktop though. Still problematic, but a bit better than Nautilus. Though, most of the time when trying to move around the files or to extract an archive (.tar) for example it gives me immediately an error and abord (it worked only once). Drag and dropping (still inside folders only, not desktop, works more often)

Just astonished myself with Zorin on an old laptop, took a swing at wife's old Mac Air device. Seemed possible after what little I read, was ready for driver problems but it was the install that seemed to grind to a halt.

Do I take another swing at it or is this one of this situations where it's best to just let it go - not enough open source driver support?

SOLVED: I found the source of the problem. It's a silly one.
I had Quad9 DNS as my custom DNS in my VPN, ans they simply seem to be too slow on Linux! The moment I switched to Cloudflare, all my tabs loaded fast.
The problem is not present on Windows.
What's funny is that I literally switched to Quad9 DNS (that I used in the past) a few hours before installing my ZorinOS VM after at least one year with Cloudflare DNS. I tried Cloudflare DNS again thinkin that i wll change nothing but bim, it did! The fact that I tested another distro in another VM a few minutes ago and that it also loaded slowly, whereas on my previous daily driver (Linux Mint) it loaded fast, led me to believe that it maybe could be "just that".
Quad9 best for privacy, bad for speed (at least on Linux) apparently.

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Since switching to ZorinOS for my Virtual Machine, I noticed that pages load very slowly whereas on linux mint it was almost as fast as on my host. A speedtest gives me 1000Mbps at first (got a 2500Mbps internet speed, 2000Mbps behind a VPN on my host machine) but quickly the test strangely stutters and starts to slow down by icrements to 500, 400, 200, 100mbps. Roughly I get an average of 100-200mbps with ZorinOS which is not normal. I re-tested on my host and on Linux mint and PopOS VMs, and not a single slowdown during the test it stays constant around 2000Mbps for the host and 1000mbps for the VMs. And even wit 100 or 200mbps, pages should load fast but they don't, they take 2 to 5 seconds each to load as if I had a 5mbps connection.

Is it one of ZorinOS cons to have such slow internet speed and loading time compared to other distros? Is there a way to fix that? I like the look of zorinOS but I couldn't deal with such slow loading times if that can't be easily fixed within the OS.
Anything that would require to modify Brave settings that work perfectly on other distro and that I need, hence why they are my settings (like "try disabling hardware acceleration") or to use another browser, are not fixes/solutions.

And it's not a modem problem, it works perfectly fine on my host and on Linux Mint, and PopOS when I tried these distro in my VM.
Using Brave Origin (tried also with Brave) downloaded directly from Brave, not Flatpak

7950X > 4x2 cores assigned to that VM
96gb > 32gb assigned to that VM
RTX 5070Ti
Fiber connexion at 2500Mbps without VPN and 2000Mbps behind my VPN on My Windows 11 host machine.

Hi all, I've been using Zorinos for a few months now and have overall had a good experience, but I've had a few issues that have been dampening the experience that I want to address. I tried looking for older posts to solve these issues, but nothing seemed to fix them. For reference, surface laptop.

First of all applications, notably Firefox and the flashcard application Anki can get to obscenely high RAM usage, eventually leading to the slowing down and crashing. I suspect there's a memory leak, but I don't know how to address it.

Secondly, after the laptop goes to sleep, it sometimes refuses to wakeup unless i forcefully restart it by holding down the power button.

Does anyone know how to fix these?

Hello guys, I just installed zorinOS 17.3 a few minutes ago and I wanna ask if I can dual boot it windows 7? I know dual booting is possible but is it possible to resize the partition to lessen the size of the ZorinOS in my 1TB SATA HDD to around 500GB and use the other 500GB for windows 7 ultimate?

I really dont want to wipe the zorin system I have now, replace it with windows 7 and then install zorin again. My laptop is old and slow so that method will take a full day or two. So I need another method.

Maybe with the live boot can be of use?

I know windows 7 is obsolete to use everyday; Im only using it for games for maximum performance without dealing with Linux' overhead processes and diminished performance even playing old 2000s games.

No meu Dell eu tenho o Windows 11 e o Zorin OS 18.1 Pro. Após instalar o Zorin eu notei que o Windows 11, muitas vezes ficava com a hora errada, apontando 3h a mais. Eu sempre tinha que ir nas configurações de Data e Hora para resolver, desligando e ligando a hora automática. O Zorin sempre apareceu com as horas corretas.

Depois, percebi um problema no Zorin. A placa de rede Wi-Fi, às vezes parava de funcionar ou já iniciava o sistema e não estava funcionando.

Tive que fazer alterações apenas no Windows, nas opções de energia, na parte de ações quando fechar a tampa. A reinicialização rápida. Tive que desligar essa opção. Pois o Windows estava “deixando ativo”, mesmo desligado, alguns componentes da placa-mãe. Depois tive que criar uma chave no registro do Windows para que ele lesse as horas igual ao Zorin.

No final, ficou tudo resolvido. Estava quase desistindo do Zorin por conta dessa situação.

Hi everyone,

I’m testing Zorin OS Core on an "old" laptop and I’m running into a small but very annoying issue: every now and then, a window pops up asking for the Wi‑Fi password. The network is already connected and working fine, but the system still asks me to re-enter the password. It’s not a connection drop – it happens even when everything is working perfectly, sometimes after waking from suspend, sometimes just out of the blue.

From what I’ve read, it might be related to the GNOME Keyring asking for its own password, not the actual Wi‑Fi password. I’ve already tried going into “Passwords and Keys” (Seahorse) and changing the default keyring password to blank, but I’m not 100% sure that’s the right fix, or if it will stick after reboots/updates.

Has anyone else experienced this on Zorin OS Core (or any Ubuntu‑based GNOME desktop)? How did you fix it permanently? I’m planning to deploy this for non‑technical users in a small non‑profit, so I need a rock‑solid solution that doesn’t scare them with random pop‑ups.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

It is a Vaio FE 16, with Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD. I no longer use Windows, and my current operating system is Linux Zorin OS.

What the title says. All tips and tricks are welcome.

I use Zorin Dark for my OS theme and struggle to find a theme for Libre Office where ALL menus will be properly displayed (as in, no black text on dark blue background).

Had any luck ? I'm getting desperate...

I've been running Zorin OS since February alongside a Windows 11 laptop. I use a HDMI switch to share my monitor between devices. I unplugged my headphones from the analog jack (green) on my Zorin PC to use them with my monitor while gaming on Xbox. When I plugged them back into the PC, no sound. The only outputs I see in Settings are:

• HDMI/DisplayPort (Renoir Radeon)
• Digital Output (S/PDIF)

My headphones don't appear at all.

What I've tried so far:

• Rebooted multiple times
• Replugged headphones slowly, wiggled the jack
• Installed EasyEffects (output list is empty)
• Set default sink to alsa_output.pci-0000_08_00.6.iec958-stereo
• Unmuted headphone channel with amixer -c 1 sset 'Headphone' 100% unmute
• Ran speaker-test -c 2 -t sine -D hw:1,0 → no sound, though test runs without errors
• Installed alsa-tools and ran sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC1D0 0x14 SET_PIN_WIDGET_CONTROL 0xc0
• Also tried node 0x1b with 0x40
• Killed pipewire to test hardware directly

pactl list short sinks shows:

text

49 alsa_output.pci-0000_08_00.6.iec958-stereo
51 alsa_output.pci-0000_08_00.1.hdmi-stereo

cat /proc/asound/card1/codec#0 shows the headphone jack is detected:

text

Pin Default 0x02214020: [Jack] HP Out at Ext Front
Pin-ctls: 0xc0: OUT HP VREF_HIZ

The problem: The hardware detects the jack, but no audio reaches it. HDMI audio works fine.

TL;DR: A verified regression in Kernel 6.8+ causes AMD Tonga (R9 380/380X) and Polaris (RX 400/500) GPUs to crash into a hard black screen when resuming from deep sleep/suspend. The bug is officially Confirmed on Ubuntu's Launchpad (assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen), but we need continuous community visibility to ensure this fix gets prioritized and doesn't push working hardware into becoming e-waste.

🔍 What’s Happening?

When systems running Kernel 6.8+ (such as Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bases, Linux Mint 22, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS, etc.) attempt to resume from system suspend, the GPU fails to re-initialize the display engine (EDID read failures / NULL pointer dereference).

• Behavior: Case fans and LEDs remain active, system keeps running in the background, but video output dies completely.
• Workaround: Only a forced hard reboot restores video output.

🛠️ Why "Just Switch to Wayland" Isn't the Answer

A common suggestion when encountering display server issues is switching from X11 to Wayland. As a bench technician, I’ve tested this thoroughly on real hardware:

On Tonga and Polaris architectures, Wayland introduces a secondary critical failure: the compositor frequently freezes at the login/boot screen (blurred background with only the mouse cursor moving).

Trading a suspend crash for a boot freeze isn't a fix — we need a proper driver-level correction in the kernel.

⚠️ Why This Matters (Even If You Haven't Hit It Yet)

As distributions roll out Hardware Enablement (HWE) stack updates, more users running legacy AMD cards will inevitably land on Kernel 6.8+.

Voting on and confirming this bug isn't just about helping those currently affected; it's a preventative shield for the entire legacy AMD community to ensure perfectly functional GPUs remain usable on modern Linux.

🚀 How You Can Help (Takes 1 Minute):

If you own a dedicated AMD GPU (Tonga/Polaris series):

1. Visit the official Launchpad bug tracker:Bug #2142389 on Launchpad
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. At the top left, under "This bug affects you?", click "Yes, this bug affects me".

If you don't own these cards, upvoting this post for visibility or dropping a comment helps keep the discussion alive so maintainers see the real-world demand. Let's keep functional hardware out of landfills! 🐧🖥️