Zorin OS 12 is one functional open source system based on Linux. According with a tweet of the development team, the operating system has surpassed half a million downloads.
Zorin OS 12 was released last year on November 18 and is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). The development team refers to it as “the biggest release ever” and introduced a completely new Zorin Desktop experience that promises to make your PC more powerful and more enjoyable to use.
During the duration In the four months since its release, Zorin OS 12 has been downloaded more than half a million times from its official website, according to the development team, which reports that more than 60% of downloads have come from Windows and Mac users who wanted to switch to an open source, Linux-based operating system.
"Exactly 4 months after its release, we are excited to announce that Zorin OS 12 has been downloaded more than 500.000 times," the statement said.
"We are also pleased to announce that over 60% of these downloads came from Windows and MacOS users, reflecting the success of our mission to bring the power of Linux to people who have never had access to it before.”
Let's say a first version of Zorin OS 12 Lite will be released in the next few weeks. Let's also mention that this distribution is great to start exploring the Linux platform, but it is far from what I think Linux is.
So we can recommend distributing to those who are thinking of trying Linux, learning a few things, and then moving to another distribution that takes most of the Linux philosophy and not that of Windows.