There is a panel on top and a dock on the bottom. The desktop is supposed to be built on GNOME 3, but it looks surprisingly like GNOME 2. Follow the jump to see what each is like.Īfter the boot menu, I was greeted by a boot splash containing the Pear OS logo and a spinner on a gray background. I'm basically just going to discuss appearances, deeper aspects of the interface, and included applications, without doing my usual other testing. Please bear in mind that as both distributions are based on Ubuntu, and as I have found time and again that my laptop's hardware works just fine on Ubuntu and so do applications like Skype and Google Talk, this comparison is going to seem pretty shallow. I tested both using a multiboot live USB made with MultiSystem.
#Zorin os 13 windows
It explicitly states that it aims to bring Linux to Microsoft Windows users, but its website is a bit more generic in that it simply states the advantages and features of Zorin OS without directly referencing Microsoft Windows too many times.
#Zorin os 13 mac os x
Even the version name is "Panther", which is actually a past release of Apple's Mac OS X ( The list goes on, but it's clear what the developers are aiming at.īy contrast, Zorin OS is quite a bit more subtle about its goals. It shows box art that clearly apes that of Apple's Mac OS X.
Its logo is a pear into which someone has taken a small bite.
Its slogan is "Think Totally Different", which is an obvious rip off of Apple's slogan, "Think Different". Pear OS takes no shame in aping absolutely every part of Apple's Mac OS X. I'm comparing it to Zorin OS, which similarly tries to replicate the experience of Microsoft Windows, to see which one does its job better. It aims to replicate the experience of Apple's Mac OS X, and upon first appearances, it seems to do so pretty well. There's been a new distribution making small waves lately called Pear OS.
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