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…

  • texture@lemmy.world
    54·
    16 hours ago

    this is just calamares, the most used installer across the span of linux distros.

    on the question of why this approach vs dedicated desktop environment installs, well, ive always wondered about the pros and cons on that too. one pro is that with a dedicated DE iso you dont need an internet connection to install it. otherwise im not sure why people would choose one or the other.

    • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      18·
      15 hours ago

      one pro is that with a dedicated DE iso you dont need an internet connection

      That’s a good reason. I didn’t realize this one did.

      • 4am@lemmy.zip
        7·
        13 hours ago

        It’s not 100% true that you need an internet connection…your install media will just be unnecessarily huge since 100% of users will only be using part of it. And, you’ll have to pay to host and distribute it, most for no reason, every time.

        It would be cool if they did make an “everything” image for offline installs though; as preparation when when they take away the internet…

        • kumi@feddit.onlineEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Debian has this (well, for sources at least) and I think it’s somewhere between 20-30 DVD images for actually-everything. Maybe not something for the day-to-day but great to keep on hand for preppers and the paranoid (:

        • artyom@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          3·
          13 hours 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.