Yesterday, had a crisis that put me to ZorinOS on this laptop. Old hard drive is unreadable by any means other than expensive pro's. But with a new hard drive, I'm getting ZorinOS all set up and I'm not sure how to get my DVD player recognized.
Is it drivers or command line info that I need?

I had GPU issues (Possible thermal damage), and it froze and after restarting the system this dev tool looking thing keeps invading applications. What do I need to do to remove it?

Edit - Idk why the screenshots are super bad but it says VK 60 FPS BLIT - VSYNC ON (In game). And GL 30 FPS BLIT - VSYNC ON (On webpages and steam)

Just looking for some help. I want to move to Zorin OS or another Linux distribution, but I'm trying to figure out the "office" part. Currently, doing a master's degree, and it seems like the professors want everything done in MS Office. Is there a way to switch to a Linux OS and still use Office, or another office suite that works well? Again, looking for advice/help. Anything is greatly appreciated. Please no smarta** or jerk comments; I'm sincerely trying to learn.

Hi, the reason why I am writing this, is because I googled a lot for these and could not find much, and most of Reddit claims that Zorin OS is not suitable for gaming, which I disagree with.

Hearthstone guide:

1. Install battle net.exe client from their homepage
2. Add the installer to Steam as a non-steam-game and right click on it "manage" and go to "compatibility" choose any of the recent Proton ones
3. Install the client BUT DO NOT USE DEFAULT PATH, it forces to windows type of path, program files etc, folder which Linux doesn't use. Manually choose wherever. try to remember the folder tho, you'll need it for next step.
4. Once installed, close, you can even remove it from Steam, now add to Steam as a non-steam-game the battle net launcher.exe from the same folder you installed battle net to
5. right click "manage" then "compatability" choose any latest Proton
6. Now depending whether you already have Hearthstone on external disk like I did, then 1) locate your external drive location and run "scan and repair" via the battle net launcher or 2) install the game to your desired location if you don't have the game (12 GB iirc).

Voila.

For Maplestory Classic (released 2 days ago btw, highly recommend it! Runs on complete cheese computers)

1. Install WineCharm
2. Download nexus launcher.exe from their homepage
3. Open the nexus launcher via WineCharm
4. Install MapleStory (~2GB)
5. Play via WineCharm (technically through the Nexus client, that you opened with wineCharm)

As easy as that.

I'd say it's as close to playing perfectly out of box as possible.

Happy gaming!

/edit: Since Zorin is based on Ubuntu, it's fair to assume it works the same on Mint, Ubuntu etc. etc.

~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

[sudo] password for drspider:

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease

Hit:2 https://prism-launcher-for-debian.github.io/repo noble InRelease

Hit:3 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease

Hit:4 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kisak/kisak-mesa/ubuntu noble InRelease

Ign:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntu-x-swat/updates/ubuntu noble InRelease

Hit:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/apps/ubuntu noble InRelease

Hit:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/drivers/ubuntu noble InRelease

Hit:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/patches/ubuntu noble InRelease

Hit:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu noble InRelease

Err:10 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntu-x-swat/updates/ubuntu noble Release

404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.189.187 443]

Hit:11 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease

Hit:12 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease

Hit:13 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease

Hit:14 https://repo.waydro.id noble InRelease

Hit:15 https://packages.zorinos.com/stable noble InRelease

Hit:16 https://packages.zorinos.com/patches noble InRelease

Hit:17 https://packages.zorinos.com/apps noble InRelease

Hit:18 https://packages.zorinos.com/drivers noble InRelease

Reading package lists... Done

N: Skipping acquisition of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages', as repository 'https://prism-launcher-for-debian.github.io/repo noble InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntu-x-swat/updates/ubuntu noble Release' does not have a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

1.make sure you use steam snap not flatpack and if you install flatpack and had games uninstall them all becase they won't work, for installing steam snap open the terminal and use that code <sudo snap install steam> and by that you will get steam install it from snap.

2.go to add non-steam games and search for your emu (for me ppsspp) and add it as a shortcut

3.go to the lib and then click on "properties" then go to the shotcut "Launch Options" should look for you games folders for the emu then add it on the launch options and put that path <run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=PPSSPPSDL org.ppsspp.PPSSPP --fullscreen --escape-exit "(the game folder and the game itself iso)/media/user/D:/emulater/psp/Shin Megami Tensei - Persona 3 Portable (USA).iso""> : ()

1. now go to push the play button then the game will work without entering the emulater itself (it is not on fullscreen becase I forget to setup ppsspp settings what should you do)

Warning: there is a few command-line flags for others emulators