It is Ubuntu with some attention to the UI and UX, and just like Ubuntu the “pro” version has a price. Which you pay a premium to have things preinstalled.
The Zorin prices are donations to help pay the distro maintainers. You can choose 0 dollars, or atleast you used to be able to
I mean yeah and no. I manage a team, I make 10%-12% more than the team even though technically we do the same tasks. The difference is I need to know their job, but also manage a schedule, and allocate resources, while planning sales for the future stream so they don’t run out of work. It’s a different skillset on top of the team skill requirement.
Not justifying a C suite at 20 million over dudes making 60k though
Zorin is a smooth clean aesthetic, and GNOME has that integration into everything, making the system feel polished. So when a user transitions to Zorin you can stay on same DE and have it windows like, and later choose 1 of the 4 styles of interface without tweaking.
KDE Is amazing for customization, but with Zorin being so focused on being a polished UX, GNOME makes more sense.
But KDE isn’t as integrated throughout the system like GNOME, on Zorin you have 4 desktops styles you can choose that range from GNOME like to KDE like without having to switch DEs.
I know KDE is highly customizable, but it doesn’t have the smooth feel of GNOME, and for a distro where their whole vibe is a clean aesthetic GNOME makes more sense
That’s the fun and terrible part about Linux, too many choices :)
Depends what he’s looking for. I think Onshape (browser based CAD) has a free version. Your data is public though unless you go with a paid version.
If he wants a free Linux CAD there is FreeCAD and a few others.
If he is attending a university, as some retirees do to audit courses or enrich life, then Siemens NX (what GM, Stellantis, SpaceX, etc use) have an academic license for around $100 a year. It is now Windows only based, unless you run Linux headless version, but if you use any version NX12 or below there is a GUI LInux version that runs on REL or SUSE (or openSUSE since it shares SUSE binaries)
It’s one of the reasons my distro hopping kept bringing me back to OpenSUSE. GUI system apps, and a failsafe revert with snapper rollback if you tinker too much and break stuff.
:) since your are starting all over, what about ZFS?
Where have you been? Lol. Its been quite popular in Linux discussions I have seen around the COVID era. Started in 2009/2010 Used to have a suggested fee and you’d just type how much you wanted to pay, even $0. Looks like they now specifically set it into separate downloads , free for core version and money for preinstalled apps.
Zorin? Its a great transition distro. Clean aesthetic, with back end gnome tweaks so you can have it look like KDE/windows. Software store made easy. Everything seems to work OOTB.
Wasn’t bcachefs being removed from the kernel, due to some shenanigans with the maintainer? Maybe it is unrelated to your issue, or maybe something has been altered
Best thing would be for you to just search what exploits a firewall protects against because its not just open ports. I would link stuff but you are discounting what I linked earlier that Ubuntu ships with firewall off; by nature the most popular distro is less secure because of that.
So no point me wasting time if you aren’t interested in it.
Edit: sorry if tone seems bad, its not intentionally that way.
To answer all your questions I’d need some time, I’d have to go back to the 100s of hours of 2.5admins and security podcasts. But to clarify an exploit doesn’t have to be an open service especially if you aren’t running a firewall. Some bombard your network adapter into buffer overun etc, but network traffic is handled by the kernel stack. A good firewall drops packets instead of letting them all into the public interface and kernel TCP stack. Where CVE stuff can happen.
I’m not saying Linux can’t be hardened , but because it is user editable and not locked down like Mac, you have a lot of things people can alter (or not alter) by hand or packages that can leave you open.
There’s a reason we have AppArmor and SELinux, yet some don’t bother to use those tools.
There was something with discord? Discourse? screen sharing that used x11 forwarding, and was on by default. I want to say Ubuntu. When it was news I checked by SUSE install and thankfully its disabled by default. But also the reason Linux distros are moving to Wayland because X11 is a security problem.
Ubuntu ufw off by default https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/security/firewalls/index.html
People hang out on public WiFi sometimes with packet sniffing and other tools to exploit people. Especially some distros don’t have X server remote display locked down.
If you want to know what is open or exploitable CVE you can run a script that discovers all CVE exploits against a machine
Last time I tried Ubuntu, it had a firewall but it wasn’t active by default. Unless something changed in the last few years.
No firewall means your system is going to get scanned to see if anything is open or exploitable
Some distros ship with no firewall enabled, some newbie using public WiFi is going to be less secure.
A pain with OpenSUSE tumbleweed is firewall and SELinux by default, but it forces you to learn about security if you need to setup SAMBA or other connections to your machine
I get your point, but since people claim Steam is a monopoly, then by that logic they have a large swath of data on what counts as a gaming machine to the user base.
I get its not going to compete with a watercooled watt sucker, but that doesn’t seem to be the majority.
As a person that has gamed since 1983: Up until recently I was gaming on a 2013 dell mobo converted to a Core V21 case (that’s a lot of rewiring conversion --thanks dell), and using a CAD GPU.
Then work bought us new laptops with RTX cards. So graphics have improved for me.
Both of those are not hardcore gaming PCs, and this steam machine will probably outperform them.
My point being these were valid systems for gaming by a gamer. Not everyone needs an F1 car to enjoy the ride to work😀
Disable aliasing I guess, or change to root owner, read only permission
They have better marketing and establishing user benefit, their next project is GRID which is supposed to be for an IT admin to mass deploy software,patches and policies from a dashboard, like you do with Windows. So they will gain credit with IT pros