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I wanna try out Linux for the first time with no clue what I’m doing and this seemed like a good starter for what I need it for what do you all think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zorin 16.3 was updated to use Ubuntu 22.04, if that’s useful info for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of that and I was on 16.3 before I switched to Fedora. Still couldn't run GPT4All unfortunately D:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, good/bad to know, fortunately for me I discovered that detail after eliminating Zorin in favor of other options.