I have just ordered my FW16 and moving from a Mac. I am familiar with Linux and at the moment I am torn between ZorinOs 18 or “plain” Ubuntu 25.x. Zorin has the appeal that it has the theming and also LTS support. Would I run into any compatibility issues running Zorin18 (especially when it comes to driver updates) or should I just go with Ubuntu`
Hi @MagicDude4Eva and welcome to this forum,
Whilst I have run ZorinOS in the past although not on FW hardware… so can’t comment.
However, i currently run Linux Mint 22.2 on a FW16 which is also based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (like ZorinOS) and I’m very happy. My FW performs well and is very stable, no driver issues.
What version of the FW16 are you running?
At the moment I am torn between plain Ubuntu and customise, Zorin 18 pro because the theming options look like what I want to achieve and last option would be Fedora where my initial impression is that it gives me more flexibility with KDE.
Ryzen 9 7940HS with RX7700S dGPU and 32Gb RAM.
When i purchased mine i tried Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint. Settled for Linux Mint because i found it to be the most reliable. Ubuntu and Fedora both crashed on me… Linux Mint didn’t.