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  • Re: Over 780,000 Win10 Users Skip Win11 For Linux, Say Zorin OS Devs

    From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Wed Dec 3 19:20:04 2025
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    Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> wrote at 14:13 this Tuesday (GMT):
    On Nov 24, 2025 at 10:48:42 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote
    <10g3fvp$34jqb$3@dont-email.me>:

    The ZorinOS folks say their latest distro release has been downloaded
    a million times in the month it’s been available, and 78% of those
    downloads came from Windows users
    <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/in-the-wake-of-windows-10-eol-over-780-000-windows-users-skip-11-for-linux-says-zorin-os-developers-distro-hits-unprecedented-1-million-downloads-in-five-weeks>.

    Sure, not everybody who downloads it is going to install it. But that
    works both ways: not everybody who installs it gets it from the
    original site -- it’s Free software, you’re allowed to copy and
    redistribute it, you know.

    One clever way that Zorin is able to go beyond Windows is to make
    web-based apps look like native apps, so you can easily install apps
    like Microsoft 365, Google Docs, Photoshop Web etc such that they work
    without having to explicitly open a browser.

    I have not played with that... is it like what Chrome and Safari do where you can save a webpage as an app?


    Presumably, yeah. I think using the Chromebook method of using webapps
    is a pretty good way to get people to at least consider using Linux...
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