https://www.pcguide.com/news/linux-distro-designed-to-look-like-windows-hits-2-million-downloads-since-the-end-of-windows-10-support/
I guess the internet serves all of us whatever we look at vs. what others are looking at, so I had heard of zorin as an attempt to look like windows, and hopefully not get sued as "Lindows" did in the past. Lindows name choice probably did them in.
I had no idea there was that much traffic toward the Zorin distro, though. The discussion online seems to be heavily tilted toward Ubuntu and then variants (Kubuntu, Fedora, Mint, ...there are tons)
Good for everyone for switching. I have to admit, I like the visuals of both mint and ubuntu studio / cinnamon (not identical, but less plain than ubuntu itself) better than windows, which has been a nice side bonus. It looks more like an operating system to my eyes, and less like an adapted expanded phone and tablet OS.
Mint apparently has something like 14 or 16 million estimated active users at one time, though a fraction of base ubuntu, which itself can be a paid commercial version and is used quite a lot. Also heavily used on stuff like gas pumps and retail terminals used to make transactions, etc. I saw a posted picture of an idle screen in a courthouse on reddit a few days ago that showed that the record keepers were using ubuntu linux instead of mac or windows. good for them!
Linux Zorin Distro Downloaded 2 Million Times Since Windows 10 Support Ended
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David Weaver wrote:not get sued as "Lindows" did in the past. Lindows name choice probably did them in.
Microsoft settled out of court by reportedly paying them $20 million if they changed the name. They did, to Linspire, then sold to Xandros, which folded. I see Linspire still exists as [ https://www.linspirelinux.com/ ] and also something called Freespire [ https://www.linspirelinux.com/ ] along with several other confusing websites which have me baffled. They appear to be trying to follow the Red Hat / Fedora model by branding their paid version Linspire with Freespire as the Open Source free version like Red Hat does with Fedora to test things before rolling them into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
They may have a few loyal long-term customers, but that marketing for a consumer desktop will never scale today. It did once, but the world changes. Those days are long gone.