Zorin Core-9 OS

[bigbeark]

I really wanted to like the latest Zorin release. It's thanks to them that I learned how to make photoshop work under Linux using the playonlinux package.

I loaded some newer machines with the 64-bit version, and appreciated that it loaded pretty well every application I wanted without backfilling via Synaptic.
On a 64-bit machine, it looks nice and works fine.

But the 32-bit distro is a disaster. I loaded a socket A machine. It was a painful experience. The 32-bit distro for some bizarre reason comes with all the Compiz Fusion effects turned on as default. It felt like I was installing on an ancient 386 machine. Slower than a P2. After I had everything loaded, I removed all the fading,wobbling window effects, turned 'em all off. Still an unbearable pig.

Put the Lubuntu disk in the drive, wiped out the Zorin. The difference is night and day. With Lubuntu, that machine is very quick.

In summary, Zorin may be OK if you've got tons of ram and a modern processor, but it's just not for me.

It does at least always display the Grub menu by default (I like).

[goontron]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

I really wanted to like the latest Zorin release. It's thanks to them that I learned how to make photoshop work under Linux using the playonlinux package.

I loaded some newer machines with the 64-bit version, and appreciated that it loaded pretty well every application I wanted without backfilling via Synaptic.
On a 64-bit machine, it looks nice and works fine.

But the 32-bit distro is a disaster. I loaded a socket A machine. It was a painful experience. The 32-bit distro for some bizarre reason comes with all the Compiz Fusion effects turned on as default. It felt like I was installing on an ancient 386 machine. Slower than a P2. After I had everything loaded, I removed all the fading,wobbling window effects, turned 'em all off. Still an unbearable pig.

Put the Lubuntu disk in the drive, wiped out the Zorin. The difference is night and day. With Lubuntu, that machine is very quick.

In summary, Zorin may be OK if you've got tons of ram and a modern processor, but it's just not for me.

It does at least always display the Grub menu by default (I like).

Compiz is a turd that needs to die.

[stj]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

if you have a low end machine then try Vector.
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

i put it on an old ibm T23 thinkpad (256meg ram, p3 cpu)
and it runs just fine!!

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

Compiz is a turd that needs to die.

why? Having a cube desktop that was inherited from beryl was awesome.

[goontron]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

why? Having a cube desktop that was inherited from beryl was awesome.

well, its full of memory leaks first off. Second is the littlest thing like switching driver versions will set it off. Its a turd.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

well, its full of memory leaks first off. Second is the littlest thing like switching driver versions will set it off. Its a turd.

What are you running?

[goontron]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

What are you running?

It was back in my days of Ubuntu. 12.04. Unity. I had AMD graphics and it had major memory leaks. Something I couldn't afford with only 3gb if ram. They claim its a problem with NVIDIA. But having it with AMD/ATI just proves the claim false.
I've moved from Ubuntu and I now rum OpenSUSE. Much better, but if the version jump doesn't fix the instability as of late I'm going to Gentoo. Its closer to what I started on; Unix.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

It was back in my days of Ubuntu. 12.04. Unity. I had AMD graphics and it had major memory leaks. Something I couldn't afford with only 3gb if ram. They claim its a problem with NVIDIA. But having it with AMD/ATI just proves the claim false.
I've moved from Ubuntu and I now rum OpenSUSE. Much better, but if the version jump doesn't fix the instability as of late I'm going to Gentoo. Its closer to what I started on; Unix.

Ubuntu is your problem. They like to butcher packages to make it fit their dirsto and not contribute upstream with fixes or bugs found.
I've been having numerous issues with ubuntu, and I've moved on to fedora recently.

I've played with compiz (or known as beryl at the time) on and off since it came to Ubuntu 8.04. quite fun.

[goontron]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

Ubuntu is your problem. They like to butcher packages to make it fit their dirsto and not contribute upstream with fixes or bugs found.
I've been having numerous issues with ubuntu, and I've moved on to fedora recently.

I've played with compiz (or known as beryl at the time) on and off since it came to Ubuntu 8.04. quite fun.

With how well Mint is doing with Ubuntu repos? fooled me! i thought they stayed close to the main branch.

[stj]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

wasnt mint going to switch to using debian?

[Mad_Professor]

Re: Zorin Core-9 OS

With how well Mint is doing with Ubuntu repos? fooled me! i thought they stayed close to the main branch.

Eh I stopped at LM 15 that thing was plagued with bugs even the install was broken. I heard it's all good now. BUt if it's based on ubunutu you're going have problems.

wasnt mint going to switch to using debian?

Actually they are moving away from rolling release going to a periodic update packs for current release and debian style schedule for new release.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-fut...d-derivatives/