The Zorin brothers have created a very user friendly Linux OS. The Pro version has some extras that the free version does not. Additional software, tech support by email and addition desktop themes. I am using the Windows 11 desktop and it does look like Windows 11. ZORIN is well worth the $39 price. It updates almost every day. The included software is superb and you can find almost anything you need.
What Windows emulator, for instance, works without having to mess around at pro level forever?!? There are seriously critical insights into Zorin OS by many expert users and they talk about many bugs, slowness, constant glitches, app crashes etc. Is all that overcome, then? I mean, this sounds like sheer propaganda, rather than critical evaluation...
You can just search up checksums to get download links? That's a nice trick To the OP question, Zorin is quite good. I have a lot of respect for what the team is doing. They're trying to turn a Linux distro into a serious operating system that you can buy and use like a product. I hope they succeed some day because Zorin is beautiful.
There are better distro’s then Zorin OS, yes the first impression for me was good. But compaired to others it has alot of issues / bugs.
I have two (3?) EndeavourOS running on my computer, and they are flawless! KDE and Gnome. I also have their flagship xfce installed. I don't use it much, I prefer the other two. Also looong time Ubuntu user. I will never give that up. I read a lot of users don't like Gnome. It's just a matter of preference.