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Zorin OS 16 has been released. Updated video for Zorin OS 16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcPCn6UiTI4
Detailed Written Guide:
https://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/zorin-os-16/

Zorin OS 16 is a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Based Distribution that has a Windows like Linux Desktop Environment. In this video I go through a Clean Install on Zorin OS 16 on an OptiPlex 7040 using a UEFI BIOS and Secure Boot and configuring the UEFI BIOS Setup. For a complete install including codecs and third party drivers, we need to set up a Machine Owner Key (MOK) to allow it to pass Secure Boot. I then move over to an XPS 13 9365 Convertible Laptop. This system also had native complete driver support and the touchscreen and auto-rotation worked out of the box.

Performance is very good (particularly for a Beta) and Zorin OS will likely perform much better than Windows 10 on early UEFI hardware (2012-2014 models).

Bugs and missing features with respect to Windows 10 (in case the development team come across this):
Unfortunately Zorin OS inherits the flawed xinput profile setting for FireFox from Ubuntu giving the poor out of the box touchscreen experience with this browser. This can be fixed by using the command line:
echo export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/use-xinput2.sh
Alternatively Chromium can be installed, it seems a search for Chrom in the software store finds Chromium and a search for Chromium does not.

The other main issue I found was with display settings and a touchscreen laptop with a high DPI screen with an external non-touch normal screen. A 200 % scaling issue on the laptop cannot be set with a 100 % scaling on the monitor. Either both are 200 % making the external monitor largely unusable or both are 100 % making the laptop screen smally unusable. This is likely due to the way the current (Xorg) graphic drivers work with Linux. There are a lot of upgrades going on in this area with the newer (Wayland) graphics driver being exhibited in Fedora. This newer graphics driver is unstable in other areas (mainly third party applications which don't work with the newer protocol). [Windows] + [ p ] doesn't open display settings.

[Windows] + [ i ] doesn't open settings. The additional touchpad settings in GNOME tweaks should be shown in Touchpad Settings.

[Ctrl], [Shift], [Esc] doesn't open System Monitor.

There appears to be no Aerosnap with a touchscreen gesture.

It would be good for this OS to have an equivalent PowerUser Menu which shows Terminal etc when right clicking the Start Button.

A similar software package to Microsoft Paint and Movie maker would be nice to have inbuilt to Zorin OS. Although there are Linux equivalents for these, they lack in the simplicity. The closest pinta doesn't allow one to easily reshape the canvas by resizing the image using the bottom right hand corner for example. Microsoft themselves have seen time and time again how popular paint is and how much of a backlash there is when they try and make a more complicated image manipulation program the default (remember paint3d?).

Zorin OS is also lacking in an inbuilt clipboard and characters is severely limited when compared to the Emoji Panel/Clipboard in Windows 10. Having symbol input on the touchscreen keyboard like Windows 10 would also be good.

Also Zorin OS lacks a built in screen recorder. VokoScreen NG works very well on it. However if they were to make an inbuilt one, they should base it on the DeepIn one.

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