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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Questions about Zorin (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by Grenfur to c/[email protected]

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Recently I am considering more and more moving my primary pc to a Linux distro. Somewhat for privacy issues but also to have more control over my system and to reduce the amound of advertising that windows keeps cramming in my face. Specifically I'm looking at Zorin. I was wondering what thoughs people here had on it.

I predominantly use my pc for gaming with friends. Almost entirely through Steam and we use discord to communicate. I'm mostly just curious if anyone here has had much experience with Zorin and whay they thought of it as a daily driver for gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zorin is based on Ubuntu LTS so it will be very stable and has tons of apps available. Steam should work just fine but I don't think they've done any additional work to specially optimise it for gaming.

Linux Mint would be a very option because they tend to update the system more often than Zorin, although also Ubuntu LTS based, and I think Cinnamon looks better than Zorins desktop personally.

If you have Nvidia graphics then maybe look at Pop_OS because while they are also Ubuntu based, they've done some extra work with Nvidia drivers and getting them to play nice with Linux.

Unfortunately Nvidia doing supply open source drivers so everything has to be reversed engineered. That's why Linux users tend to use AMD.

[–] Grenfur 3 points 1 year ago

I seems like the general concensus is Mint makes more sense for what I need. I'll need to do a little more looking and test it out.

I honestly hadn't heard of pop_od before so I may need to look into that as well. Most of my hardware I wouldn't mind replacing but I have a 3080, and dropping cash on a new graphics card seems suboptimal lol.