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…

  • 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.