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Gotta have to congratulate the folks over at Zorin OS for this succes. Mad props!
Though, I gotta wonder: Can we expect similar numbers for Linux Mint or Ubuntu? Or, has Zorin OS somehow won the post-W10 SEO-wars? And, if so, how?
Well Zorin is ubuntu based, so i feel like that's a win for Ubuntu (and debian)
And also the world
It's Ubuntu based, but it's doing a lot of what Ubuntu is for. If canonical is happy with that that's awesome, but I would suspect that they want these people going to Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu remains recommended against by a lot of people.
They have UIs that look just like Windows out of the box. A lot of their marketing is to cater to Windows refugees as "we're the easiest ones to get used to".
They have better marketing and establishing user benefit, their next project is GRID which is supposed to be for an IT admin to mass deploy software,patches and policies from a dashboard, like you do with Windows. So they will gain credit with IT pros