Thread: John - Let's Talk Linux

Originally Posted by John

Excellent! That's the first I heard of Zorin but it looks good and if a non-tech person is good to go it's obviously a nice linux distribution.

I generally use Ubuntu.

Originally Posted by curly sue

Mr Curly uses Ubuntu, I use Mint. He's the computer nerd at our house. The last Windows I had was XP.

ZORIN is actually UBUNTU made to operate similar to Windows. It uses the UBUNTU software center to install software and other UBUNTU features.

I used to be a UNIX system administrator years ago until our office went Windows all the way (servers and desktops) so I have basically lost most of my knowledge of how to do a lot of command line stuff and don't feel like spending hours trying to reeducate myself (Unix and Linus uses similar commands from what I remember). So ZORIN seems to be the easiest switchover.

Originally Posted by John

I still do run windows but run them in virtual machines on a linux machine. I think windows actually runs better that way.

Yes, I plan to install Windows via a virtual machine as well. While Linux has a decent amount of sotware that I can use for most tasks and WINE has certainly improved over the past couple of decades to where I can at least run MS Office, there are some programs like my BoxShot3D that I use to make book covers and my PresentationTube software that I use to make my some of my Bible teaching videos that require Windows.