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Why don't more distros use this method? (www.virtualizationhowto.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by artyom@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

It's very nice to not have a dozen different versions of the same distro to parse through and figure out that are simply the same distro with a different DE. Moreover, very few of them offer this many options.

Cachy could be doing a better job explaining what the user is looking at here and who each of these is for. Pretty easy to sum up in 1-2 sentences...

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

you’ll have to pay to host and distribute it, most for no reason, every time.

I DLed Cachy with the torrent. Another thing I wish more distros would offer, haha! It was 2.8GB. I'm not sure if that's big or not really, I don't typically pay attention.

I had an Ethernet cable connected so I wouldn't have had to connect it manually, that's why I don't know if it was necessary.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago

I DLed Cachy with the torrent. Another thing I wish more distros would offer, haha!

I don't think I've ever encountered a distro that doesn't offer a torrent download option, since it saves the project expensive hosting costs.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Tumbleweed doesn't offer a torrent because there's a new iso nearly every day.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

That kind of case makes sense, actually.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Well now you have. Just the first one off the top of my head.

[-] lucas@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wow, that's wild. I guess that's what you get from being such a young/niche project, they haven't had the time/dewmand to come up against the problems that all the other distros had to solve years ago.

[-] halet@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

~~You're just lying.~~^[Meta-joke I just had to make. If you know, you know. In actuality, you simply didn't know better.]

Not on their website, but it does elsewhere: https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/bazzite/

The website for the torrents is (at least) found within Bazzite's documentation.

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