I know a lot of people use Linux as their desktop OS for "free software reasons", but it's my daily driver because I simply find it more useable than the alternatives. I ran Debian + KDE sometime in the mid-2000s on a computer I rescued from a dumpster, and while I was very fond of that rig, I remember getting exasperated with it after awhile. I picked up a Mac the following year, and was an OSX convert for close to a decade. Sometime around 2017, I vaguely remember starting to feel like I was tolerating OSX more than enjoying it. I used Windows 10 for gaming, and that was fine for that purpose, but I didn't like it for much beyond that. (Strangely, I really loved the Windows Phone OSes, but I didn't really carry that love over when their design principles were ported to the desktop.) In 2019, I picked up a Dell XPS 13" and put Linux Mint on it. I was immediately surprised at how straightforward it was to use. Especially heartwarming was the simplicity of launching programs (via the windows key + freetext search.) I'd also underestimated how much Docker made my life on Linux easier (because I could now confine programming-specific package installs to containers, which kept my host dependencies pretty simple.) I was happy with Mint, and then sometime in 2021 had an urge to tinker. I'd been strangely curious about Zorin -- Mint has this huge, helpful community, and I'd frequently see Zorin mentioned as a plug-and-play alternative to Mint. I found very little community around Zorin, and the bulk of what I could learn about it came from the Zorin website and some youtube videos. I installed it on a whim, assuming I'd switch back to Mint in a few days. I never did. Zorin just works for me. I don't know much about the folks who make it, or about the folks who run it at home, which is substantially different than my Mint experience. I had hoped that Zorin would solve the one issue I had with Mint, which was this terrible feeling of input lag. Turns out that switching to a more desktop-friendly kernel configuration (I chose Xanmod) did the trick, and would have likely done the trick on Mint as well. Whenever I go back to Mac (for work) or to Windows (for gaming) now, I find myself low-grade frustrated at the UX. I'm not claiming that this is going to be remotely true for most people, but it is for me, and that makes me happy. I know Zorin has some forums and maybe a Mastodon server or something, but I haven't felt much of an urge to see what they're up to out there. I'm just grateful it exists.