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Why don't more distros use this method? (www.virtualizationhowto.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 2 days 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 17 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[-] lucas@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

That kind of case makes sense, actually.

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