I've been dual booting Windows 10 and Zorin Linux for several months now. As Microsoft's impending support cutoff for unsupported hardware looms, I've worked on adapting to Linux as a daily driver again. My last run was back around 2008. Before that, I was using Red Hat on an old desktop PC to self host the USL website in 2003. And before that I was using Mandrake Linux around the turn of the century. I've been using Ubuntu for my home file server for over 15 years, but Windows has been my day-to-day OS since Windows XP.

But Windows 11 has changed that. I can't afford to upgrade all my home machines. And I don't feel like messing around with here today, gone tomorrow workarounds to get what feels to me like an AI/Spyware/Bloatware/Adware delivery platform than an OS installed on hardware that just meets minimum system requirements.

So I turned back to Linux. Why did I pick Zorin? It looked clean, it's based on Ubuntu which I've been using peripherally for some time, and the desktop is Gnome based - which again I'm used to. The distro choices today are honestly rather overwhelming.

"But how has the experience been?" you might be asking.