Is Zorin18 running well on the FW16 - what about kernel support?

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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`

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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.

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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.

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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.