Comment by lproven

> It seems like they are targeting a demographics with low tech literacy

True, and often overlooked in the world of Linux.

> but I don't know how productive those statements are really.

What it really means is that it comes with 20GB of so of preinstalled Flatpak apps for a whole bunch of use cases: graphic art, sound and music production, video and podcast editing, live streaming, etc.

Stuff you need domain-specific knowledge to find and install on Linux, and which on Windows costs real money and probably will get you a tonne of spyware, ad banners etc.

Nothing vastly demanding if you have the knowledge.

Rather than giving you an app store and leaving you to it to find it, learn it, navigate it, and find the apps you need and avoid anything dodgy, they take a whole catalogue of premium big-name FOSS apps and preload the lot.

It's big, and when I reviewed it, it filled my VM and then a real disk partition -- but in real life, you nuke Windows and dedicate a laptop to this, and then it's fine.

My most recent review:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/zorin_os_173/

My first:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/02/zorin_os_162/