<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>I've been running Mint+Cinnamon for a few years on my desktop and laptop, having previously tested OpenSUSE (KDE), Fedora (Gnome) and before that Ubuntu. I recently started testing Kinoite on my laptop (Fedora Atomic + KDE). Haven't tried Zorin, but did look at the docs.</div><div><br></div><div>Mint has the best app store GUI of any distro I've tested. I like that all kinds of packages are integrated into a single GUI: cli programs, GUIs from flathub, fonts, etc, with a nice UI that includes user reviews and star ratings.</div><div><br></div><div>Zorin has a bad upgrade process: the only option for major release upgrade is to backup and do a clean install.</div><div><br></div><div>Mint + Cinnamon is fine. I don't have a favourite desktop at this point, although I prefer the vaguely Windows-like desktops. I'm going to test the Cosmic desktop as early as next month, once reviewers declare it stable enough for regular use.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Nov 26, 2025, at 8:33 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>(Double posted, so reply to your list)</div><div> <br></div><div> Anyone running Zorin OS or Linux Mint on real machine? Any issues?</div><div> <br></div><div> I've been trying them out on VirtualBox, to see which one I should
migrate to.</div><div> I can't decide. They are about the same, in terms of stability.</div><blockquote><div>- they crash about the same number of times (but, I
think it's VirtualBox issue). </div><div> - speed is about the same</div><div> - they're based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (kernel 6.14).</div><div> - Zorin has its own desktop... it's okay.</div><div> - Mint has its own desktop, too... it's okay, too.</div></blockquote><div>So, I need real-life feedback...</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list</div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email</div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>