oh wow there must be dozens of users by now
It’s a solid general use distro for “most people”. I know a lot of people love to recommend Mint, but I can’t stand Cinnamon desktop, personally, and I think it gives a bad impression to new users.
I’ve never used it - what don’t you like about it?
It’s just ugly and dated.
Any idea on what caused the spike? I used Zorin years and years ago and while nifty, didn’t have anything that met a particular need that wasn’t already satisfied by other distros. I checked their site and it looks like nothing drastic has changed.
Perhaps some popular influencer or advertisement type thing?
Windows 10 support has ended on 14/10/2025
Do note that the spike is dashed, so it’s a projection line, I believe. Doesn’t look like actual data yet.
I didn’t understand that, thank you for the clarification.
No problem! (Note I first mistyped “protection” instead of the correct “projection”. 😅)
W10 support ending + shipping major update at exactly the same time.
Any idea on what caused the spike?
End of Windows and lot of YouTubers recommend it as something that looks a bit like Windows (on the surface). Maybe?
lot of YouTubers recommend it as something that looks a bit like Windows (on the surface).
Oh yeah, I forgot that was it’s schtick. Well, best of luck to them, regardless of the cause.
Source is Google Trends.
