 Hi, today we'll take a look to Zorin OS. So again, I am mostly a UI designer So what I first look at is the UI of the product So let me just say the first look is pretty good. I'm I am not a big fan of Transparent panels without blur, but if I try to open up the menu here I can see that this one is not actually Transparent, but it does feel a bit tinted So I'm wondering if this is just white or maybe it's a bit transparent with blur behind it So let's try to change the wallpaper to see which one of the two it is. So Where is that display? Change background Thank you. Let's try to go something. This is looks pretty good Thank you and Still seems white. Let's try with something more colorful like this And you know, I'd say it's white So first of all, let me say that I'm actually quite impressed by the fact that the default wallpaper feels actually very Natural with the white look because it almost feels as this was transparent on a first look I thought this was transparent, but it didn't it's very clean. There are no Unnecessary lines only a few quite a transparent ones here and there and then there's the system tree Which is separated from the system tree of Other third-party applications again looks like the gnome one Particularly in I think that the blue accent color that they had it is very nice Especially in the selected applet the fact that it goes from being black on white to white on blue very good effect and as far as the calendar goes Again standard one with a very pretty gradient on the selected day. I quite like it and The only thing that bothers me a bit is that we have this multitask button, which feels a bit Allian to the general look and feel because it's all very white and blue whereas the multitask window is much black like and It's a gradient over the background, which is not something that's done anywhere else So it feels a bit weird and the meet a key is actually mapped to that effect rather than The this window which again is a bit weird because I expected the meet a key to open up the start Menu in this windows like configuration whereas it opens up multitask view These icons on the background are actually a bug. They should not be here and if we open up like Files, I was going to say dolphin just because I'm used to it and then open up multitasking We can see that it's It's buggy, but I think it's actually my fault. I don't know how I did it, but I'm able to bug everything That's why I work at KD, but still you should not see these icons So if we go back to the file manager, I really like it I think it's the third time I praise and now to lose this is not now to lose, right? And but I think that this is the prettiest thing that I've seen so far this blue accent color with a bit of shadow if I see it correctly is really pretty and The animations are also on spot and the only thing that I think it's wrong is that this line This resize line goes from the very bottom to the title bar Which feels united, but it just stops there You would almost expect this line to go through the recent button or rather behind it So I think that could be an improvement and that's probably due to the fact that There should be a title bar here, but the Zorion S look is very Let's say monochrome. So there's no separator for it at all bar So everything that stops at the top just before it at all bar looks a bit weird because it tends in nowhere But still I really like the design. So if we go to the settings I've there's this bug that I actually lose focus if I try to go too much on the right, but Still if you go to the software, I've heard that there's a way to customize this thing a bit So let's see what we have here Normal stuff like Wi-Fi in search application, okay each one of them make sense and There's no theme or stuff like background notification There's nothing about The layout or the color scheme It's weird because they do Do they at verse? Maybe it's only in the ultimate ISO. This is the core one. It's the only one they give right now as a beta for Zorino and 16 but yeah, so that's what we got and Of course, I had forgotten the most important thing So first of all, we've got gestures and they are one-to-one Meaning that I go up and down and up again like this. Very nice. There should be also just sort of to get to the Task manager overview it's called but I can actually not reproduce them right now So maybe they will be in the final version also, of course the appearance is not in the settings but rather in the Zorino appearance application. So we've got a layout chooser. Let's try I don't know this one, which is a bit more compact and you've got the name of the application a bit like old KDE or Windows because Windows also does this thing of mixing Not pinned application with open application with the name And then the same menu and same stuff then there's this layout, which is With ikon's center. I think that's the only diffana. We also lose the menu on the bottom left So it's a bit more gnom-like. Let's see and then there's this one Which is The most gnom-like Yes, this one seems just like no So yeah, I did remember correctly that there was some layout changing And we can also change the accent color or gradient Let's take green as an example and It nicely Is nicely applied pretty much everywhere So good job on that and the background can also go from white to black to adaptive Which is super cool. Only a few like apps have this adaptive thing It's a bit sad. No, never mind. I really like how the dark Sorry, the dark background color is tinted with the accent color So if I choose red, you can see that the background gets a bit more red and same applies for The title and sorry the text for ground color So it goes from being white to being a bit tinted with red So great job on that then application I can choose the set of icons and This shell button is not working for me as far as interface goes I can choose the position of the treasure bar buttons Whether I want an emission this jelly mode, which is a bit like the plasma wobbly windows I actually don't like this very much, but And then this button already solves my complaint Left super key opens up the Zora menu, which in my humble opinion is A better alternative very humble And we can also turn on the hot corner for the activities like ingame We also have a section for taskbar settings There's a lot there's a lot of Stuff to customize so That's good. I mean I'm a kitty person. So when I see Lots of settings I get happy. I think that's a widespread fact And then I can choose whether I want icons on the desktop, which I don't And if I do their size and so on make sense And finally I can also choose the fonts. I think it's very nice that we have this Apprents application where I can see set the most important things Although I'd still prefer it was part of system settings because because That's where it logically belongs So yeah, that's pretty much it. I really like it And let's move on So let's try it our usual see how the application are as always my favorite Category are accessories. So we've got a clock Okay the Same one as before looks good. Again the fact that it just ends here is a bit weird I would suggest to actually make the bottom left and right Corners of the rectangle a bit rounded it would feel a bit better in my opinion But except that it's pretty good and let's see how the theme is for To do what to do is it? Is the same one. Yes and This one is missing like the blue accent color for the selected Task as it's pretty much pretty much everywhere. So we could have I did it as well. There is a feedback button, but it actually opens up firefox So there's no Dedicated up for feedback Still pretty good that you have such a clean way to send feedback without having to, you know, go through a all the bugzilla In You know in style Then we have a maps application. This is using I don't know. I've seen no maps Years ago. So this is actually the first time Looking at it. It's pretty good except now everything disappeared. Okay It's usually good Let's see how the interface is because this is the first time I tried and this is actually pretty very pretty Let's try to zoom in a bit What do we have here? so we have These these opens up the location of my house very privacy oriented and then Let's try to go from, I don't know, uh, Rome, Italy That's a yes to Milano in Lombardy Let's see not by foot because it's Days of It actually looks very nice. I like the look of the sidebar. It manages to be very consistent even though I mean They could have messed this up. There's also this fact that if you try to scroll up When there's actually nothing to scroll up these blue like A gradient will appear on top. I think it's very pretty. It's very done very well I've also seen it in the gnome reviews, but again the blue accent color makes it stand out nicely and the same applies to the segmented buttons here and the indication sidebar Toggle there's a bit of lag when you open up the sidebar, but we can ignore ignore that What else do we have the weather? Let's see if it's sunny In genoa it is sunny interesting how it immediately got my City and I don't know if this is part of the actual application if it's a customization, but This genoa italy and the color of the buttons is not actually white. It's blue ish Again, it's tinted from the I guess background Of the clouds. So that's really pretty. Let's see if we can get some other image by changing. I don't know the location places. Let's go to Milano, which is always um It's actually sunny. I was going to say it's always rainy, but it's actually sunny anywhere else. I don't know how's new york Okay, this pop-up is too big to fit the How many new yorks do you have? And it's sunny there as well Well, I cannot guess a place with rain so What I know what else? I don't know. Let's try with burley germany and It is cloudy apparently just as much Albania in the united states. Yeah, I cannot get rain. Never mind. We'll never see how it looks with rain So as far as games goes we have mines Unluckily the icon is not the one that I fall in love with the last review but also sudoku and quad rapaceau, which I guess is because that race is I don't know How do you say it copyrighted word? These two games My young yes, I know about Is is rot solitaire? I've no eyes this one. Yes The ui is pretty bad though This really feels old Not even the blue accent color can save this ui. You even get icons that are not monochrome. I don't like this up And then you get the image viewer Librafist draw photos Let's go with image viewer Again, this is weird The title bar Is using a bluish color I'm wondering where is it from Is it from the background or what because It's uh, surely not from an image which is not displayed at all So if we change it It's still blue Okay, so Maybe it's uh, you blue I mean light blue because the accent color in general is blue That's my best guess and it only seems to be used when You have a dark theme application Which make me might make sense Although at this point I kind of wish that light color apps had tinted Title as well if I I'm able to get one Like instead of black you could use slightly tinted black which looks great so Yes, but um as always let's try to download a test image Let's see to come up with some I don't know cat pictures Uh, what is this search? Accept cat image with a mask So pretty How we found corona virus in a cat. Oh, this is really this the first result of cat pictures How we found corona virus in a cat? Well, this is her warming. Thank you Let's try to open it up in the image Viewer Of course we can't You don't accept web Okay, we cannot use web um pictures Let's try with something else. This is a png you should accept in you I would have expected expected a web picture to be supported, but whatever It's very clean. Can we rotate? No, this is GNOME 40 only rotating the image with the touchpad We cannot zoom in. Okay And we can share Did I see a share button? No, it didn't Side pane Okay Let's move on What else do we have here? We have seen the zone This We have seen here internet. There's still this ramina to connect to desktops Offices that you don't office. Is there any What's the theme? Let's see the calendar first I'd like to see the theme. Okay. This is pretty consistent with the other um segmented button we had seen And then these light blue could be a bit more bluish to follow the Theme because uh, this is a much darker blue You could also at least have an outline. I don't know It's interesting that the month is displaying blue. This is uh Pretty again. I love how they do an accent color that sticks out so much. I think it's a great idea We should use accent colors more Look if you see this calendar, this is very blue. This is so light There's a bit of difference. I would like this blue to be more blue Then what do we have you can synchronize the calendars, but I mean we can actually try this out because I got some suggestion last time on how to actually make this work So online accounts Go Let's see if we can open up the Drive for my account this time and meanwhile I still have my Slow internet and meanwhile Let's open up LibreOffice to see if there's anything applied to it how it looks LibreOffice actually uses Whoa Okay, actually uses the segmented This has a name the ribbon ribbon. Sorry Layout I like it. I'm actually a big fan and I think that we should use it much more often And the card around the selected ribbon I don't know Button is consistent what we've With what we've been seeing so far. So it's pretty good. However The toolbar background does not fit well with the title bar It could have been easy to just set instead of this grayish The same color that you have here and here and then the whole ui would have been like the same color Which is the design trend Clearly of Zorin But they didn't so maybe that's something that could be improved. Meanwhile, let's accept everything here And let's put a password again one two three four five six Because this is How hard is it to misspell one two three four five six? Yes, pretty good. Thank you Now let's pop up the terminal And Again, oh, this is there's a one pixel bag the The scroll bar actually goes one pixel beyond the Window and it's also not rounded on the bottom Whereas pretty much everything else in this os is and The background color of the console could be The same one as the title bar again as in pretty much any other application i'm a bit Weirded out from the look of What is this zone? So let's kill Nautilus Sorry about that. There's no nautilus apparently Yeah, of course. I closed it Is there any other nautilus coin on some kind of? You know background I don't think so. Okay, let's open it up again And we actually have my nicola dot veneran the Drive With all of my stuff again old stuff. I don't even know what We have in here exactly but it works and most importantly it works out of the box So This is impressive Let's take this occasion to open up g edit This was not g edit. Sorry This looked like a file, but it's actually a google file. It's pretty good that You think you think that this is a file? So It's not displayed at some weird link, but it's actually a file to nautilus and then it just pops up Um google docs, so I like this and I've also just now noticed that The blue accent color Goes gray when you deselect the window Which is a good decision a very good one because First of all, you don't have any title bar color difference between enabled and disabled application Usually both in plus magnum and so on you would have a title bar that title bar that changes the color when it's active But in here it's always white. So you need something else To like give a hint of what is active and in this case is the accent color It's also the shadow of the window. You can see the shadow changing, but that's pretty much a standard in any OS but um using the accent color to Give a hint of what's active is a really good idea that everybody should follow Let's get back to my Firefox. There's data nice Everything works so far. So we actually managed to show Something working nicely out of the box without me complaining about it. Nice There's a rhythm box which I guess No, it's actually pretty It's actually pretty I think I had complained a bit about the rhythm box look in the Ubuntu or GNOME review, but here it looks just fine Maybe it's just a different context, but You still have a difference of whiteness for the view compared to the background This is something plasma also has but In here it seems like it always uses the background color, but for the background and the view If you open up dolphin, you will see that This part is white because this is the content and in some some applications Preferred to draw a different color For the view which displays the content Which is usually a whiter A version of the background as you can see here white gray But it's not done here And the what else power statistics, it's Interesting anything useful History, okay, so we have actually a nice story of our battery I think this is pretty important and on the long term. I'd like to see a battery graph to be Let's say Embedded in this part of the system tree both in GNOME and plasma Because The more time spent the more it gets reliable And when it's really reliable it's some important information that could just as well be displayed in the system tree I've seen some mock-ups of windows actually that do that We have the calculator Okay, it's a bit better than the last one. I mean the look the calculator is still the same one But the buttons are a bit more natural There's a cool animation when it's Over than I like it but the last one at Outlines and having outlines for every single button is not a good idea. So what else utilities looks The screenshot application that I open up each time just because it's pretty it looks a bit different Is this a different screenshot application? Let's grab just an area Why can't I select um delay if I select the area to grab this Weird and I cannot Customize these things either it seems weird to me Let's try to select either this part of it And then I copy the clipboard. I kind of prefer Spectacular or a while it's pronounced Near we have a sound recorder. Let's start recording It's the same one that I actually used for recording the audio of the ground review Hello everybody And then we have um dv dv for I guess What was it a displaying video or editing them editing? Yeah looks like editing And again, this is black A black screen sorry theme application So all of the text is slightly light blue I like it. I think it's a good idea And I usually use getting live so just to try out. Oh, this is bad though. These icons should be monochrome Using non monochrome like colorful icons on the right Let's import a video I think I've done a test one. So Let's go with test Let's drag it here Nice zoom in I'm not used to the scroll direction. So sorry if I get that wrong And we can drag it the volume Title let's create a title one How do you edit okay like this? Works Maybe I would use Ah, but this is pretty laggy The Progress bar is very laggy And Clip, let's see if there are some interesting effects Where is the effect library? others Lots of interesting stuff it looks Very much different from the kd live In set of effects But yeah, I'm not supposed to be reviewing ptv. So This is just messing around to see mostly the theme and the ui. I see that when you have a dark theme Okay I'm pressing okay the fact that All of the title bar is like a giant Out of a giant line input is super weird I don't like it And no what I noticed is that the scroll Um effect seemed to be Like blue as well instead of dark blue. So it seems like they've chosen this light blue as a overall accent color in dark Ups instead of the bright blue that we have in the light ones. Let's close this one And the recording one is fine And Does this not work Okay, it only works when you're playing or something like that And then you can drag this looks pretty touch. Yes, this is very touch friendly Let's try a bit with A bit this os with touch and pressing out buttons is Pretty easy. If you drag from the bottom, I've seen that the virtual keyboard pops up Is a is agnome thing We can close it again with the down arrow And if you drag from the left you get The grid of icons, which I actually think is how I have broken it So Don't do it apparently Or be a good person and actually report this bug to Zorin And I think that's pretty much it again the software application just doesn't work very well for me in the Live usb, but that's where it's most useful for me to test stuff out. So I just want Show it at all. I think it's more fair And then that's pretty much it without repeating too much stuff that we've already seen So This is actually the first time that I'm using Zorin os I've seen some screenshots of like the early versions and I didn't quite like 15 or 14 But this version I think it's really pretty and uses Especially the accent color Super right. I think that we should really learn something By them because it's not even like a color. It's a gradient They have an accent gradient And it's done right I really like it. So if there's one one mean take out that I would You know take out from Zorin os is the accent gradient, which is Beautiful and changing the color of the icons when the accent gradient is displayed under it I wonder if there's I wonder if this could be like the right way forward for the selected Effect in plasma because right now it's just a blue line that doesn't even touch the panel borders and doesn't look good at all So maybe I should check that out But besides that I like it. I wish they did not I wish they used a bit of blur behind the panel because This transparency is not something I'm a fan of but overall I like it. I think it's well designed and thumbs up again