I’m not to familiar with zorin, and I don’t see it recommended often. What’s the deal? Any criticisms of it? Especially for new users?
It looks and feels a bit like windows with the theming it has out of the box. So it’s probably an easier on ramp and possibly recommended in “what Linux is most like windows” google searches and the like.
It also will automatically configure wine for you if you attempt to open a EXE or MSI file
Which is weird right? Who is recommending this distro for it to surge? Is this actually a lot of downloads when compared to other distros? I’ve never seen it listed once in any of the many “which distro should I switch to?” posts.
Zorin has been featured in some major publications — like Forbes
I’ve never actually read a Forbes article on my own. I’ve seen some Forbes articles posted though. Maybe all these downloads are just from Forbes junkies and they saw the article.
It’s a 3 year old article, but Zorin has been building its relationships with the media and putting some effort in to marketing. The journalist here explains why he features Zorin OS in his articles. Probably a lesson here for FOSS and Linux in general. If you want adoption, you need to tell people about it where they are and not hope they find you. It’s not, “if you build it they will come.” It’s “if you build it and tell them about it, they will come.” I think the average Linux user is probably not an expert on how to spread Linux because the average Linux user is into niches and doesn’t believe in marketing and probably even has an aversion to it.
Gotta have to congratulate the folks over at Zorin OS for this succes. Mad props!
Though, I gotta wonder: Can we expect similar numbers for Linux Mint or Ubuntu? Or, has Zorin OS somehow won the post-W10 SEO-wars? And, if so, how?
Well Zorin is ubuntu based, so i feel like that’s a win for Ubuntu (and debian)
