PCGamer wrote:Hi All !!
Have one question about the Release from Zorin Ultimate 15 ...
i bought the Zorin OS Ultimate 12.4 ~ 8 month ago.
So my question is can I update my version to the U15
or have to buy the Zorin 15 U15 again?!?!
And if I have to buy them again ~
then may I ask - why?!
Best regards
Oliver
Oliver,
I agree with Swarfendors suggestion. There is certainly no harm in asking. I do want to add a few thoughts, though.
First, since you bought 12.4, I would suggest you use that channel that came with its Tech Support to open the communication. It may be faster to actually reach the team. The Zorin team is currently understaffed. There is no sense in bothering to beat around the bush on that detail.
Secondly... Let's take a moment to examine the concept- of Buying. This is not word play or trickery, merely a matter of perspective.
What are you getting for your purchase when you Buy Zorin OS? Well, pretty much everything on it is stuff you could have installed yourself, for free.
It's FOSS, baby!
What you are paying for is the offer for Tech Support- but also for their Gathering and Compilation of the software. Have you ever struggled to install a program, ran into dependency issues, bugs, conflicts and so on? In Buying Zorin OS, you are paying them to deal with all that hassle, for you.
But most importantly, considering that you could have gotten it all for free, could have installed Zorin OS Core for free and then installed a few more programs yourself, at no added cost, what you are really doing by Buying Ultimate is Showing the Team support, encouragement and gratitude for what they have put out there for us to have and use. It's more like a donation than a purchase.
If everyone only ever installed Core or Lite and no one (If there were no people like you,) supported the team by buying Ultimate Editions, there would Be No Zorin OS. So from us all, thank you for being a person like you.
There is no harm in asking the Zorins, since only a few months separated the purchase you made and the release of OS 15, if they can help you out. But from your perspective, you may also ask yourself whether you may choose to install 15 Core edition, instead - or work an arrangement to reduce yourself to one donation rather than getting hit with two donations when what you really wanted was One Good OS in the first place. Or, to show the Zorin Team a great deal of support.
There is no right or wrong answer, only decisions.
If you decide to install Core Edition, add the rest yourself and run into pesky issues- please ask on this forum and people here will do their best to help.
