Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.
And I fucking HATE pedophiles.
Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.
People who defend that shit are SICK.
Nothing against Fedora KDE, it’s the best of the best, but it is hardly the easiest for a noob to Linux: just the install process alone requires a working understanding of the Linux filesystem and partitioning if you’re not using the entire disk space, you have to understand root vs sudo, god help you if you want to encrypt a disk, and there’s a lot more CLI at every step than other distros. Try harder.
I’d be surprised if he does. If he’s “sick and tired” of hearing about Zorin, it’s because Zorin is getting a lot of deservedly good reviews from the Windows crowd right now. If it really were ass he’d have nothing to say about it. The only social media I’m on is Lemmy, and I tried Zorin because it was highly ranked on Distrowatch, so if people are getting “astroturfed” elsewhere it’s news to me.
But you should know I tried over twenty (conservative estimate) distros before I settled on Zorin. USB drives are cheap, and you can try as many distros as you like without ever having to install one. Don’t take my word for it, nor his: buy a handful of USB drives, create some LiveUSBs and start trying out whatever distros catch your attention. I found distrowatch.com to be a good front page to the distro world, with rankings and extremely detailed reviews: start there if you’re looking for a fairly exhaustive list of what’s out there.
Oh, they’re customer focused, alright: focused on scraping customer data via the installed OS to feed to their AI and then aggregate for sale to other data brokers and/or interested governments.
The Dell logo is the BIOS loading, the black screen is your bootloader and the beginning of your OS loading, and of course the Z is Zorin loading. While it could be hardware, to be honest where it’s hanging for you makes me wonder about how well your Zorin video driver suits your actual hardware, based on some similar issues I had with Fedora doing the exact same thing that you describe.
I am still learning Linux myself so I am not the best person to tell you what to do, but I know where I’d start if I were in your shoes: use the lshw command (see below) to get the details on your actual hardware, specifically the graphics chip; see if anyone else is having similar problems with the same graphics hardware; and in the meantime put Mint on a LiveUSB and run Mint for a while to see if it performs better or ends up doing the same thing.
That’s just beginner tips off the top of my head; I know you will get better advice if you run your problem by the Linux communities, esp because they can tell you how to capture the load process to see exactly what’s causing it to hang, and I’m just guessing. But at least you now have some hints of where to start.
Quick primer on lshw: To use lshw to see your hardware specs, type at a command prompt:
sudo lshw -short
If it says it’s not installed, to install it type
sudo apt-get install lshw
That will get you started, I hope. Either way, whatever you do will get you further toward a solution, whether that solution is a different distro or tweakling this one. I hope this helps.
Love it. Just wrote a separate comment about it. I ran the free versions for over a year, then decided to go to paid just to support the project. Paid gives you GUI for appearance adjustments and desktop “personalization” but not a whole lot else; other than superficials like that, under the hood the free version is exactly the same. I can’t remember what the Zorin folks say about it, get the details directly from them of course, but IMO don’t feel like you have to buy the paid version to get a true taste of how it will work for you.
EDITED to add: This incessant, eternal negging shit from the Linux crowd kept me away from Linux for a long time. I found OPs question legitimate, which is why I answered it, but whether you like Zorin or not noobs should not be downvoted for simply soliciting opinions on a distro. I’m very fortunate that some people were generous enough with their time and answering questions to make me give it another go, but there were over thirty years between the first time I tried Red Hat that came on a dozen 3.25" floppies in the early 90s, and last year when I tried Linux again: that absence had EVERYTHING to do with the core haters that apply purity tests to any mention of any Linux distro that they personally find some fault in. Seriously, for the sake of Linux, shut the fuck up and piss off, unless you’re just concern trolling for Microsoft or some shit, in which case you’re doing a fine job, never stop.
Just for clarity, when you say it won’t boot, where in the boot process does it fail? Do you get as far as loading the BIOS, do you get a little way into the OS and then it crashes, or does it just not start at all?
I ask because depending on how far it gets into the boot process, you may not be looking at a software problem at all. Generally speaking, you have to get past the BIOS and into the bootloader before assuming the problem has to do with your choice of OS.
Further comments may have been disabled, but a number of them are still up and are highly entertaining:
https://xcancel.com/pavandavuluri/status/1987942909635854336
Zorin is working out really well for me, esp on my older machines with slower processors and less RAM that choke a little on fuller distros. I enjoy the KDE Plasma distros, for example, but they’re a little too heavy for my older boxes and I was getting a lot of video stutter and unexplained shutdows, etc. I don’t get that with Zorin or Mint. For me Mint works just as well as Zorin and picks up all my hardware just as handily, it just feels a little basic for what I’m used to. But Zorin hits just right in every direction for my needs. It’s a good distro for Windows noobs, that’s for sure.
“Senator Chuck Schumer, your leader in the Senate, said ‘I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address health care, I am voting no.’ Did you do this outside leadership, and was there a big push for you not to join the others and break the 60 threshold?” Kilmeade asked.
“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded.
From TNR: Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
“Senator Chuck Schumer, your leader in the Senate, said ‘I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address health care, I am voting no.’ Did you do this outside leadership, and was there a big push for you not to join the others and break the 60 threshold?” Kilmeade asked.
“No, we kept leadership informed throughout,” Shaheen responded.
From TNR: Democrat Who Caved on Shutdown Says Chuck Schumer Knew All Along
I do not believe this had anything at all to do with hungry people.
As someone far more astute than me pointed out, they caved at the same time flights started to get cancelled, not when people were about to go hungry, nor even when they missed their SNAP disbursements.
It’s the big donor issue of flight cancellations, not the welfare of citizens, that dictated it’s time to end the shutdown now and not a month ago.
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She’s on the list:
In the end, eight broke off on Sunday night to side with Republicans and allow the measure to advance: Mr. King, Mr. Kaine and Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois; John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire; and Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, both of Nevada.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/government-shutdown-senate-vote.html
There are already mechanisms built into the SNAP distribution system for repayment by the recipient. These include reversing the EBT payment to the extent of available funds, withholding the disputed funds from future disbursements, penalizing the recipient by withholding SNAP payments entirely for a certain number of months, and/or, if there are to be no further SNAP payments, simply presenting the recipient with a bill for whatever the state wants back because they think some amount was overpaid, fraudulently obtained, used outside permitted guidelines (traded for other valuables), whatever.
Unfortunately, even if they can’t immediately claw the payment itself back, they can and will try. Whenever the govt releases even the tiniest portion of funds via benefit payments to regular citizens, they always build in a number of ways to get it back. Always.
As anyone can tell you that has ever had to wade through the maze of requirements and jump through all the moving hoops of getting govt benefits they desperately need, the only REAL “welfare queens” left in the US are sitting on corporate boards like WalMart, Amazon, and McDonald’s, training their new hires how to apply so they don’t have to pay their workers a living wage.
Not too many people can sew or do leather repair work.
Truth. (At least not well.) Glad you were able to get out of there.
Really good article. Thank you for posting it.
I can see how it isn’t clear to non-USians, but each state has its own house, senate, and “supreme” or highest court that it elects representatives for at the state level, as well as the federal equivalents you are familiar with.
For example, Warnock and Ossoff, as you rightly pointed out, are federal senators elected statewide in Georgia, to represent Georgia at the federal level in DC. But there are also Georgia state senators who represent various areas of the state in Atlanta at the Georgia State Assembly.
EVERY state has this duplication of representatives for the judicial and legislative branches, and even the executive (governor = state president, if you like) though the names for the state equivalents can vary from the federal.
The way to spot the difference is that the reps will have either US or state in front of their titles, US being federal, and sometimes you have to look closely for it, but it’s always there. Also, there are zero state elected “commissioners” at the federal level, which is another clue: when you hear “commissioner” it’s either state level or a leader specific to a govt agency at any level.
Edited to add: The commissioners mentioned in the article are not state senators, they are representatives on the state’s Public Service Commission, which controls public utilities in the state of Georgia.
A commissioner in Georgia can also be county government, which is another level of possible duplication under the state level (the variation is even wider when you get down to county and city level).
To flip these seats is actually really significant, because local power structures are real, and can be much harder to ever change than even their more visible counterparts at the state and federal level.
If you’re not actively curating your own choice of reading material and are relying on unknown others to make those choices for you, then you absolutely deserve everything you are “forced” to read.
But even that is far too generous: nobody held a gun to your head loaded with the article you clearly did not read, lol.
Your quote, but when asked to name a better “easiest distro for Windows users” Fedora KDE was the best you could do.
Somebody asked you a genuine question, looking for real information, and out of this “dozen excellent Linux distros” you came at her with, you lazily just shat out the name of a single one, and that being one of the more advanced distros out there.
Hell yeah, try harder. People who ask genuine questions deserve genuine answers. Unless that’s just your best and you need pity.