ConnexionZorin OS 18 Saw “Biggest Launch Ever” on Windows 10 EOL Day
Windows 10 support ended on October 14, and Zorin OS 18 launched the same day — a canny piece of timing that has paid off for the Ubuntu-based distro. In a post shared to its X/Twitter account, Zorin Group (the company who maintain the distro) say their latest release had passed 100,000 downloads in just over 2 days making the “biggest launch ever”. More tellingly: over 72 percent of downloads came from Windows users. It seems the company’s months-long promotional pitch to persuade users to try Zorin rather than toss their perfectly capable PC on the e-waste heap has paid […]
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