Zorin was my first distro (on Arch now), and it was a choice of Gnome or Xfce (both skinned to look the same). Aside from a few applications by Zorin, and many

Zorin was my first distro (on Arch now), and it was a choice of Gnome or Xfce (both skinned to look the same). Aside from a few applications by Zorin, and many preinstalled, the theming and easy layout changing is the primary difference from Ubuntu I think.