Almost 8 months of only ZorinOS at home and counting.
Upgraded my set-up over the christmas break last year, and decided that was the right time to finally kick windows out too. While i troubleshoot windows for users all day at work, i hadn't had much experience with linux prior, so i needed something stable and easy to deal with at home.
I can confirm that Zorin has been exactly what i wanted.
There have been some issues along the way for sure, including a weird problem with my main monitor never waking up from sleep properly, but rarely have i encountered anything that needed extensive troubleshooting-
-especially surprising since i had heard of issues with NVIDIA GPUs, and i had just upgraded to a 5060ti, But that worked fine out the box.
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Games
I don't really play a lot of the big popular games, 'nor retro either, but what i have so far played has been quite alright:
-The Elder Scrolls Online, as a stand-alone via lutris, had some minor issues, but nothing more complicated than adjustments on Windows would ever be.
-Helldivers 2 on steam however, "It just works"!
-*40k Darktide ran super smooth, but then suddenly crashed at random intervals. It has been a bit of a nightmare to get working, but i'm pretty sure the problem is as much with the game's engine as linux itself.
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Other Apps
While i don't do much in terms of niche PC uses at home these days, any apps i have 'missed' from windows have been easy to find a replacement for.
My headphones and Keyboard, Fractal Scape and 'BE QUIET!' Dark mount respectively, rely on apps for additional functionality and have worked great with the webapps via brave/waterfox. With only minor function loss for the keyboard due to lack of 'proper' app access.
The closest I've come to a proper App gripe; is not being as comfortable with the choice of offline flac/mp3 players as i was with MusicBee on Windows.
Strawberry is the one i have ended up with, although it feels much less intuitive than the former, and can be finicky to organise at my desired window scale.
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So overall i will be continuing to use Zorin as my daily driver, and see no reason to stop doing so in the near future.
(At most i will be using my secondary mini-pc to explore some other Distros :3)