Has anyone tried DistroSea? It lets you test drive Linux distros straight from your browser, no installation or live boot needed.
They’ve got a pretty impressive list, over 80 distros from the looks of it, including the usual suspects like Fedora, Debian, Arch, openSUSE, and Ubuntu plus a bunch of its flavors!
Worth bookmarking if you’re curious about a distro before committing to a full install.
I’ve not seen DistroSea but I’ve seen one or two VM setups that allow users to try out various Linux distros for a short period of time. I’ll take a look at this; it may be a much stronger implementation of an idea similar to what I saw years ago.
Just for kicks, I’m trying out antiX 26 - they have the sysVinit variation in their image. Ah, can’t make a WiFi connection; neither Ceni nor Connmand allow me to access my environment.
How about other distros? Have any of you actually tried it yet?
Yes, and no. lol So this was sent to me about 3 mins before I shared it here. I did click to launch a session, it said 5 others were ahead of me. I moved to other tabs and missed it: 
But I’ve since tried again with desktop notifications enabled, and now I’m in!:
I got “in” too, but I was unable to do anything useful with it, such as browse the Web. Have any of you successfully USED it yet?
My session isn’t connected to the network either, which is understandable. For a free service, enabling internet access would likely add a lot more demand and infrastructure costs. Hopefully it’s something they can expand in the future, perhaps with some limits in place for security and resource management.
nope; networking doesn’t function; this looks cool but doesn’t do anything for me; I can download stuff, put it on a Flash Drive and try it out; replace the contents of the Flash Drive if I don’t like the distro!
thanks @hydn - I find this useful, an opportunity to test a little bit, find out how it looks like, to know if I feel comfortable, all of this without wasting a gazillion Gb downloading distros that I will never use.
Yes, exactly, I’ve tried about 10 so far. Just curiosity lol. Provides me enough of a preview to know if I want to install myself.
