The more I look at this, the more it pisses me off. This is another half-assed Ubuntu-based distro with some XFCE-like proprietary desktop slapped onto it.
From the tour section of their site:
"No risk of getting viruses...thanks to Zorin OS's immunity to Windows viruses"
This is going to lull people into complacency, and is maybe an outright lie. Yes, there's a lower risk of malware than Windows, but there's plenty of Linux malware that goes around these days...
"Super-fast and light on resources"
Benchmarking, please?
"Zorin look changer... lets you change your desktop to look and act like either Windows 7, Windows XP... the Premium editions also include WIndows 2000, Unity, and Mac OSX"
So, the desktop can emulate other shitty OSes' desktops, as well as a couple other superior OSes that it's trying to rip off? Who the fuck would pay them money to have a Linux OS with a Windows 2000 desktop? That's a novelty at best, not a "feature" worth paying for.
The rest of it they appear to be taking credit for things you can get in just about any other distro, such as Wine/PlayOnLinux and Gnome Software Center. They should also give more credit to Ubuntu's (awesome) accessibility tools that they're touting.
Before, when I saw "distros" (Ubuntu/Debian clones with some proprietary desktop environment) like these, I would just roll my eyes. But I think after the Linux Mint having their installers compromised, it's time to be more critical of these shitty distros.
A fancy desktop environment seems to be the big selling point of these distros, why not spend your time making an awesome desktop environment that everybody can use, rather than slapping it on Ubuntu/Debian and calling it a new distro? Inevitably, it seems that these distros are too concerned with interface/branding to put more effort into parts of the OS that count, like security.
From the tour section of their site: "No risk of getting viruses...thanks to Zorin OS's immunity to Windows viruses" This is going to lull people into complacency, and is maybe an outright lie. Yes, there's a lower risk of malware than Windows, but there's plenty of Linux malware that goes around these days...
"Super-fast and light on resources" Benchmarking, please?
"Zorin look changer... lets you change your desktop to look and act like either Windows 7, Windows XP... the Premium editions also include WIndows 2000, Unity, and Mac OSX" So, the desktop can emulate other shitty OSes' desktops, as well as a couple other superior OSes that it's trying to rip off? Who the fuck would pay them money to have a Linux OS with a Windows 2000 desktop? That's a novelty at best, not a "feature" worth paying for.
The rest of it they appear to be taking credit for things you can get in just about any other distro, such as Wine/PlayOnLinux and Gnome Software Center. They should also give more credit to Ubuntu's (awesome) accessibility tools that they're touting.
Before, when I saw "distros" (Ubuntu/Debian clones with some proprietary desktop environment) like these, I would just roll my eyes. But I think after the Linux Mint having their installers compromised, it's time to be more critical of these shitty distros.
A fancy desktop environment seems to be the big selling point of these distros, why not spend your time making an awesome desktop environment that everybody can use, rather than slapping it on Ubuntu/Debian and calling it a new distro? Inevitably, it seems that these distros are too concerned with interface/branding to put more effort into parts of the OS that count, like security.