Zorin OS 18 has been released last week at Tuesday, 14th October 2025. This release is special because it comes out coincidentally in the same month Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" and Microsoft ends the life of Windows 10. Currently available as Pro, Core and Education choices of edition, it is the successor to OS 17 released two years ago. This GNU/Linux system is suitable for most computer users, organizations, schools and offices. Below you will find the download links. Now, let's download Zorin OS together!
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Purchase Zorin Computer
Today, you can purchase a laptop or desktop computer with Zorin OS preinstalled. Fortunately, these computers are already available (just like Windows and MacOS boxes). Last release, you can order from two shops, namely LaptopWithLinux and StarLabs, and this release, you can choose from two more shops, namely NovaCustom and Framework shipping worldwide. Zorin Company have partnered with these computer brands and every purchase helps contribute to the Zorin OS project itself. Click here to view all Zorin Computers.
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Download Pro Edition
We respect the decision of Zorin Project to make one edition a paid product, that is, a commercial version of GNU/Linux and free (libre) software distribution Zorin OS. You can purchase Pro Edition (Ultimate) for $48. Every purchase helps contribute to Zorin development. To purchase Zorin Pro, visit the official webpage.
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Download Core Edition
Zorin Core is the edition for standard uses on desktop and laptop computers. Click here to download Zorin Core.
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Download Education Edition
Zorin Education is an edition built for schools, teachers and students. It includes educational software built-in to help teachers teaches about math, science, geography, languages and more. It is also enhanced with optimization to make it suitable to run on older PCs and computers with software versions as latest as possible. Click here to download Zorin Education.
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Download Lite Edition
To be discontinued thanks to the optimization successfully done to non-Lite editions.
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Mirrors
Below are several alternative download links of Zorin OS 18. You can pick one mirror below if you feel your download speed to the official mirror is slow.
🇺🇸 North America, by Ibiblio, North Carolina.
🇮🇩 Asia, by DatautamaNET, Indonesia.
🇰🇷 Asia, by Kakao, South Korea.
🇫🇷 Europe, by IRCAM, France.
🇩🇪 Europe, by 23media, Germany.
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Torrents
Official Zorin OS does not publish torrents. However, unofficial torrents are usually made available for Core, Lite and Education Editions by two communities, FossTorrents and LinuxTracker. Once made available, you can download from there and verify the downloaded files using Checksums below.
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Checksums
Your downloaded file should be verified and checked the SHA256SUM to match its original SHA256SUM from Zorin OS so then you can safely use it -- otherwise your file copy is broken and corrupted. Click this tutorial to learn to do this verification.
Zorin OS 18 Core 64-bit: 98666287ca5afae215def4804aca479bf3b439e028bc8f4e4d8ecddb6dd27339
Zorin OS 18 Education 64-bit: 0eb9c12166721e77c7a131e433ae8833fc2aa916104be615850795826f4cfc33
Zorin OS 18 Pro 64-bit: eee2f551015ff0a8d28769e0bf0bb18a3490113f7977f2b4f2c54781e431cdea
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How To Make Zorin OS Bootable
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have the tutorials. You can use either Disk Utility or Unetbootin or
Rufus program to burn the image file to a USB to make a Zorin OS
bootable media. Follow Disk Utility tutorial or Unetbootin/Rufus one to do it. This media later can be used to install Zorin OS to your computer and laptop.
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How To Install Zorin OS
Lastly, you can follow Ubuntu Installation Guide
to install Zorin OS 18 as the walkthrough is basically the same. This
guide can result in either normal or dualboot, either for UEFI or BIOS
Legacy installation, and either on internal or external storage (an
empty USB flash drive for example) for you.
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See Also
Zorin News: Windows 10 is reaching its end of life
FSF News: 2025 end of Windows 10
GNU Project: Selling Free Software (GNU/Linux for example) is OK!
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References
Official Announcement
Official Downloads
Official Checksums OS 18 (archived)
Switch Your Organization to Zorin OS
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