r/zorinos

Setting up Zorin and so far I've liked it quite a bit - this is far smoother than when I tried to use Mint back in college.

That said, I'm trying to use the "Online Accounts" option to sync with OneDrive. I did the procedure for gdrive, and it worked just fine. However, no matter how many times I've gone through to log in (clicking the microsoft 365 + onedrive, clicking sign in, signing in, etc), it'll add the account, but when I navigate to the drive in the file explorer an error comes up with "Access Denied." I have been searching for a reason why and haven't found anything. Anyone else experience this?

I normally use RustDesk when I support my mum across the country. However, RustDesk is apparently experiencing so many attack currently that she now has to log on for me to go online on her computer. She has no account with them and is not getting one.

Question: Which free alternatives would you recommend to use on Linux? She's on Linux Mint Cinnamon (X11) and I'm on Zorin OS (Wayland).

I reckon I'll run into the same issue on my youngest daughter's Windows 11 computer. She lives nearby so it's not as big of an issue.

Ever few releases my login screen seems to decide to default to Wayland rather than X11. Every time I use Wayland I have problems: My second monitor is blank and windows have a weird rectangular overlay/underlay especially when remoting in to anyother computer.

So, how can I lock X11 in as my preferred video API?

Hello, was wondering if anyone can help me out here. I have Zorin OS 18.1 Core installed on my laptop, the model is the HP Pavillion 15-cw1511sa. I have recently been experiencing issues where i can charge my laptop to full or any percentage while switch on or powered off, but when i come back to teh laptop at a later date even if its 12 or so hours later, from 100 percent its managed to drain to around 80. This was while shut downa nd powered off. I am not sure if this is a new issue for me or if anyone esle is experiencing similar. Any help as to how i can fix this would be greatly appreciated as i have really enjoyed my experience with Zorin so far! And i dont want this to become an on going problem for me (It could be to do with the fact its 5 years old but the life on it is still pretty good and way to good for it to be draining this fast while off, however it doesnt make this theory impossible). Many thanks!

Just (Aug 2026) renewed an old HP ENVY x360 convertible laptop (replaced swollen battery and replaced damaged nvme drive) and instead of reinstalling Windows 10 decided to try Zorin OS 18. I have tried to use Linux for decades...never really settling into it. But this time it was different, very different: it was the smoothest install EVER (I installed the Core version first) and the smoothest initial user experience! After less than 24 hours, I jumped in with the Pro version as I think this laptop WILL BE VERY USEFUL AGAIN and wanted to have all the additional apps and themes. Thank you Zorin OS development team!!! I now have the motivation to learn a bit more about Linux. Also planning to use this laptop to learn FreeCAD (I will be leaving Fusion 360) and possibly to edit videos too.

Do you mind sharing your thoughts if you are in a similar situation (new Zorin OS user), what do you love about it, what cons or issues you have faced so far?

Am sorry if this is an annoying question to ask, however I am going to study soon and can't really take my huge pc with me, so am planning to transfer my data using the zorin back up app to a tablet or a laptop tablet. What am planning to do is:

1. Blender

2. Video editing

3. Extremely light wight gaming (2d games and old games)

4. Note taking

Pretty much it. Please recommend something for me. Thank you very much.

Hello, I have a confusing problem and I don't know what to do. I also tried to get help from Claude, which did work kinda, but eventually even Claude gave up.

The problem is that for some reason my system freezes after I unlock LUKS, right when the Zorin text appears. It's not fully frozen animations play normally, but nothing happens. Shortcuts don't work either, nothing works.

The first time this happened, I thought maybe it was an issue caused by Secure Boot and the automatic LUKS unlock with TPM2, which I set up a few days ago. So I disabled Secure Boot and rebooted. The time before, it had frozen before unlocking Secure Boot; this time I could unlock it, but it froze right after.

Then I tried nomodeset, which worked, it actually booted and the issue seemed gone. But then I booted again without nomodeset, and to my surprise, it still worked. So I tried enabling Secure Boot again, and for some reason that also worked. This went on for a few reboots, but after about 3-4 reboots, I had the same problem again and this time, neither disabling Secure Boot nor setting nomodeset helped.

So I booted into recovery mode. That didn't help either it froze right on the screen where I can choose what to do next (resume boot normally, or something else).

I then tried a different kernel, thinking maybe it was a kernel problem. I pinned the 6.17 something kernel, since with the 7.x kernel I have issues resuming after suspend when opening my laptop lid. I thought maybe it was a kernel issue, but it's not, same problem with the 7.x kernel.

I even thought maybe it was a hardware problem, since you never know, so I ran the Lenovo diagnostics tool and it found no problems. There was also no issue booting and using live Linux distros from a USB stick.

I need help I have no ideas left.

SO, boom:

- ZorinOS (Long live this beautiful and stable distro), I have an affinity for MacOS and this gets me really close to that experience, both visually, and feel wise. IYKYK

- For photo editing: RapidRaw, this has so much potential!!! If I was an app developer I'd contribute, I need this to keep growing, and for C1 to notice and bring their butts over to linux.

- For video editong: Good ole Davinci Resolve, enough said. Davinci as it is is better than premiere, please prove me wrong.

This works for me, right now, but I wouldn't complain if we could have photoshop. I know what people say, GIMP is the same, sure but I grew up with photoshop so its like a muscle memory thing.

GAHHHHHH give us more options. I wish I knew enough about programming to just make my own proprietary photoshop just for me.

I need help moving to Zorin, my Windows is corrupted and keeps eating my space whenever connected to the internet. Moved most of my stuff to external drive and Windows took that space. I've got 25gb left, can I partition my drive to install zorin then migrate my file to it or just f**k it and delete everything on my PC to install Zorin?

Hello everyone ive been trying to download zorin os for several weeks now but everytime i get to the download portoion it will be doing stuff for severall days at a time, thats if i dven get to the download most of the time i freeze before then qnd i have to restart i dod a fresh boot drive like a new one and i have still been downloqding for days is that normal?

So after a painful experience, I found that kernel 7.0 from Zorin does not play well with llama cpp. It somehow required more ram distribution that my laptop cannot handle. I had confirmed this after a painful experience of basically trashing my system and unable to boot after thinking it was an Nvidia driver problem.

I had now restored my system by doing a fresh install (it was so broken, that it was easier to nuke it all). I also confirmed that llama cpp was able to load the Qwen 3.6 model on my 8 gb of VRAM + 16 gb of system ram, it barely fit, but it run pretty ok at 25 to 30 tokens / sec on Kernel 6.17 which is now my default boot order in GRUB.

Now how do I lock down the system update of the kernel and the nvidia driver? as I learned those 2 are deeply connected. Ideally I would like the update the rest of the system except for those.

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so far in the zorin os update menu I had unchecked proprietary driver for device and I also just request for security and recommended update only instead of all update. So is this enough?

Hello everyone!

I'm going to buy a Lenovo Yoga 7 2-1 Laptop for my master's degree which will commence mid September. I want to use Zorin OS for personal usage as after my masters I will be going all in Linux.

How easy is it to rotate between Windows 11 and Zorin OS? I never installed Linux before. When I start up the laptop, will it show two options and which one to start?

Full guidance please and I never installed Linux and used Windows Virtual Machine.

My plan: get the laptop and install Zorin OS without removing Windows OS.

Use both till I finish master's and then go all in with Zorin OS.

im new to linux and i recently dual booted zorin os alongside windows just to try out linux but after installing it, i kinda feel lost and dont know what to do or setup first? and if theres any software i should download to make my experience better, what is it?