[kwlug-disc] Zorin vs Mint

[Doug Moen]

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.

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.

Zorin has a bad upgrade process: the only option for major release upgrade is to backup and do a clean install.

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.


On Wed, Nov 26, 2025, at 8:33 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> (Double posted, so reply to your list)
> 
> Anyone running Zorin OS or Linux Mint on real machine?  Any issues?
> 
> I've been trying them out on VirtualBox, to see which one I should migrate to.
> I can't decide.  They are about the same, in terms of stability.
>> - they crash about the same number of times (but, I think it's VirtualBox issue).  
>> - speed is about the same
>> - they're based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (kernel 6.14).
>> - Zorin has its own desktop... it's okay.
>> - Mint has its own desktop, too... it's okay, too.
> So, I need real-life feedback...
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