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Why don't more distros use this method?
(www.virtualizationhowto.com)
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...
One of the great things about Linux is that if the user is still undecided after reading the paragraphs and looking at the screenshots, they can boot into the live environments and see for themselves which one is right for them.
You're expecting way too much of a new user. There's already 309534 distros to choose from, now you want them to boot into a dozen live environments of each one?