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I installed Zorin 6 yesterday (after football) I have to admit it was one of the cleanest (lack of a better word) disto I have ever seen. I loved the fonts and icons on all the desktop choices it offered. One major problem was that it hated my Nvidia video card. I tried all proprietary that was offered after first trying to go with the driver supplied with the default install. Sad really, because I was very impressed with this distro.
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I too like Zorin a lot but it does have its issues, not least of which is the update which is now at 500mb plus after install. The update process is also flawed with Many users reporting the same issue I encountered when trying to accept or reject a changed file. Wolfram's advisory post in their forum is well meant but not exactly what you expect to see for a system that proposes to cater especially for ex Windows users. How can you expect these to update using the command line or boot into recovery mode and jump through more hoops to do it that way?
I also lost the number indication for new mails arriving on my Thunderbird icon after I changed the Awn theme ![]() I'm not totally blaming Zorin for this because I think the underlying factors are likely to be Ubuntu related. That said, to me it just looks to be a bit too fragile for long term use compared to say Korora or Solus. There is also a public 12.10 beta release for Luninux which impressed me greatly (current full version) with it's speed and stability. http://luninuxos.com/?p=1644
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![]() Talking globally for a moment I think it's worth pointing out the amount of time and dedication it takes just to get a distro to a release stage. Considering most of the best have just a single developer or at most a small team behind them, this is a great achievement. Maybe it's too easy to be critical, especially when the result is as free as air too, but then we all like stuff to work when we switch it on. ![]() There's talk within Luninux circles too that the 12.10 beta is more stable than the 12.04 based LTS, which again points the finger firmly in Ubuntu's direction. Undoubtedly the best spins for some time have been coming off Fedora. Korora being one and Fusion another although since 14.1, the latter has been struggling to get to grips with Gnome 3 (surprise! ![]() http://fusionlinux.org/blog/
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Zorin 6.1 released today.
http://zoringroup.com/blog/2012/11/0...e-is-released/ 6.0 users need not (they say) reinstall because their existing system will be automatically upgraded via the normal updates. Sorry guys, but I don't always buy this. Especially if there was a specific issue, you could be better off with a clean install of the later version. Appreciated this is not always an easy option depending on how users have their data configured, but if possible worth considering. I can't look at this now because yet again no cable DSL here so I only a very slooow mobile connection until they get it fixed. ![]() ![]()
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