Zorin OS 18 review and demo, including installation, Zorin OS 18 Core vs Pro, OneDrive and Wine integration, and removing the Brave browser. You can download Zorin OS 18 from zorin.com/os/

If you like this video, you may also find useful some of my other Linux videos, including:

"Choosing Your First Linux Distro": www.youtube.com/watch

"Switching to Linux: A Beginners Guide": www.youtube.com/watch

"Linux Mint 22": www.youtube.com/watch

"Ubuntu 24.04": www.youtube.com/watch

"Debian 13": www.youtube.com/watch

And you can find all of my Linux videos here: explainingcomputers.com/linux_videos.html


REFERENCES

Zorin OS Installation guide: help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/install-zorin-…

Zorin OS guide to Windows application alternatives: help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/alternatives-to-win…

Zorin OS guide to playing Windows games: help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/play-games/

Zorin OS FAQ on moving to the Brave Browser: help.zorin.com/docs/system-software/frequently-ask…

Libre News on why not to use Brave: thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

XDA Developers article on Brave: www.xda-developers.com/brave-most-overrated-browse…

Zorin OS Forum post on Brave removal issues: forum.zorin.com/t/feedback-about-post-removal-brav…

HOW TO BOOT YOUR PC FROM A USB DRIVE

Exactly how you boot from a USB drive does I’m afraid depend on your particular computer. Often a boot menu can be accessed by pressing a particular key when you power-on, which may be F12, F11, F10 or Esc. And if you can bring up such a menu, you can simply select the USB drive.

Alternatively, you can enter the BIOS/UEFI, again by pressing an appropriate key, which is commonly F2, Del or Esc. Once in the BIOS you can hopefully find a setting that will change the boot order to have USB first, so that your computer will always first try to boot from an inserted USB drive. However, to work, this may also require you to disable a feature called “Secure Boot”. This said, in the BIOS, there is often an “Exit” or similar menu (usually on the end on the right) that offers a “boot override” facility. And this allows you to select to boot from a USB drive without having to turn off secure boot or to make any other BIOS changes. So here you would select your inserted USB drive, and your computer would then happily boot from it.

Sadly, UEFI/BIOS settings and USB boot configurations are just not standardized, so I cannot give you a definitive set of instructions here. But I do provide more guidance in my video on “PC BIOS Settings”: www.youtube.com/watch


COMMANDS TO REMOVE THE BRAVE BROWSER

As shown in the video, enter each of these commands in a terminal:

sudo apt purge brave-browser brave-keyring

sudo apt autoremove

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-*.list

And the additional commands to remove Brave files from the user’s home folder are:

rm -rf ~/.config/BraveSoftware

rm -rf ~/.cache/BraveSoftware

rm -rf ~/.local/share/keyrings/brave-browser*

All of the above terminal commands are believed to be accurate, but are entered into your system at your own risk.

More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers

And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt

Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
00:49 Getting Zorin OS
04:14 Installation
08:14 Zorin OS 18 Core
11:34 Web Browser
15:29 Windows Applications
17:45 OneDrive Integration
18:44 Zorin OS 18 Pro
21:58 Wrap

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