Let's say I want to change of distribution. I'm in Ubuntu 20.04 and I want to change to a ZorinOS just for the sake of the new look and feel, they are both Ubuntu-based so I'm guessing a migration would be easily so I wouldn't lose every file, right? I assuming that my GNOME extensions will be unused and other thing related to Desktop but the rest should be fine ?
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TL;DR: Take a backup first, you'll need it.
While Zorin OS based on Ubuntu, they are completely different operating system, employed by different manufacture. If you want to switch between them, I strongly urging you to perform a backup first, it's better to be safe than sorry.
This is also mentioned on their forum, when a user asked how to migrate to Zorin without losing data, everybody seems to advise the said user to take a backup first.
If you somehow have a dedicated partition for /home folder, you can simply format your system partition and then install Zorin onto that partition. It should work— but you should have take a backup before, I wouldn't risk it.
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