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Replacing Windows With Zorin OS and AnduinOS
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XDA ☛ Here's why Zorin OS 18 is a solid pick for Windows escapees
If you haven't heard already, Zorin OS 18 celebrated one million downloads in the space of a month, with 78% of those downloads coming from Windows machines. That's a cool 780,000 downloads originating from a Windows machine, and it was a cool insight as to how people in Microsoft's ecosystem are beginning to poke a toe into the open-world side of things.
Originally, when I would recommend a Linux operating system for a Windows user, I would lean towards Linux Mint. However, after giving Zorin OS 18 a spin and thinking about it for a little more, the distro has jumped up in my beginner rankings a few places.
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XDA ☛ Forget Zorin, this is the Linux distro I'm using to replace Windows
Much has been said about what the best alternatives are to Windows. With Windows 10 being officially unsupported for most people, users have been forced to ponder whether to stay on an unsupported OS, upgrade to Windows 11, or switch to Linux, and a lot of people have chosen that last option.
Through recent reports, we've learned that a Linux distribution called Zorin recently had over 780,000 downloads in a single month, and Bazzite — a more gaming-focused distribution — recently pushed past 1 petabyte of ISO downloads in a similar time period, which equates to over 100,000 downloads.
But for as popular as those options are, when it comes to replacing Windows, I still have a clear favorite, and it's neither of those. AnduinOS is the option I'd go for as a Windows convert, and I stand by that recommendation. Why? Let's take a closer look.