Zorin OS says Windows users drove nearly 1M downloads, so I installed it to see why
Jan 1, 2026 | Guides
Microsoft dropping support for Windows 10 has left a lot of perfectly good hardware in limbo just because it doesn’t meet the requirements for Windows 11. Naturally, people are reluctant to let Microsoft turn their functional computers into e-waste, so they’re switching over to Linux. One Linux distribution in particular has seen a surprising uptick in users, ZorinOS. Just a month after its latest version released, it was downloaded over a million times. According to ZorinOS developers, almost 800,000 of those downloads came from Windows users. Windows 10 users are clearly flocking to this distro, so I installed it to see what the appeal is. Turns out, it’s the perfect replacement.