I’ve used it a number of times to get fonts and additional programs and had no issues with it. Gosh, I don’t know that there’s much I can say about Linux Mint Cinnamon’s Software Manager (or its Update Manager, for that matter). My opinion is subjective and limited by the fact that I couldn’t get every distro I tried to work well in VirtualBox. Nonetheless, you could be right: Zorin might be easier for recent Windows users. Actually, now that I think of it, in Linux Mint Cinnamon I even tried the CinnVIIStarkMenu applet, which gives you a pretty close approximation of a Windows 7 Start Menu, and then went back to the standard Cinnamon Menu because it was easily familiar enough and I liked it better. I didn’t like Pantheon (Elementary) or Deepin *at all* (being a Windows guy), and I found the few “lightweight” DEs I tried too limited - as a Linux newbie, I didn’t like being forced to use the terminal or work hard to find a GUI way of doing things I routinely did in Windows.
I was able to more or less figure out and live with Gnome 3, but I didn’t really cotton to it. I don’t think I ever ran into the problem firsthand, but I’ve read that Plasma is a little glitchy in places, too. I can’t say.) KDE Plasma was equally familiar and a lot more customizable, with more bells and whistles, but somewhat confusing for newcomers to configure. (Maybe it just felt familiar because I have used Windows since at least Windows 3.1 and spent a long time on XP. At any rate, coming from Windows I found Cinnamon to be a good mix of familiarity, features and power, and absence of bugs and glitches. It’s possible that it was just one of many distros that I simply couldn’t get to work well in VirtualBox. I find myself wishing that I’d kept a journal of what I thought of every Linux distro I’ve tried, because I no longer remember why I nixed Zorin.
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