Over 85 Linux How to apply without installing distribution - Use DistroSea

With DistroSea you can use several Linux- Test distributions.

There are currently 85 distributions for testing.

DistroSea is free and works in any web browser.

I recently wrote about the Virtual OS Museum, which gave me the opportunity to get to know the first Linux distribution I had ever tried. It was a fabulous walk into the past and even allowed me to test other Linux distributions that are no longer existing by now, and all this conveniently via my web browser.

The only reservation to the Virtual OS Museum is that it is actually a museum – You will not find current distributions for testing.

Unlike the Virtual OS Museum, you can actually test several new distributions with DistroSea. Currently, 85 distributions are available, including AerynOS, Alpine Linux, AnduinOS, Arch Linux, Arco Linux, Bazzite, Big Linux, BlendOS, Bodhi Linux, BunsenLabs Linux, CachyOS, Chimera Linux ... the list continues.

The distributions range from too familiar to dark. In fact, I ran through the whole list and searched for distributions I had never heard of. I just found one – Primtux. So I decided to try it.

To start Primtux or one of the distributions, click on the associated icon, select a desktop (if this option is available) and wait in the snake. Depending on how busy DistroSea is, the waiting period can be between almost instant and a few minutes. When the wait is over, click on “Next” and wait until the distribution starts.

You will also notice a small handle on the left edge of the display. Click this handle to display the VNC toolbox that clearly indicates that the distributions are displayed via VNC (more precisely noVNC). For this reason (and because these distributions are rendered via a network and a web browser), you can assume that they work more slowly than if they were installed locally.

With the VNC toolbox you can display (from top to bottom) the desktop in full screen mode, open the VNC settings and disconnect the connection to distribution. In the Settings section, you can adjust the quality and compression and change the scaling mode from “Remote” to “Local”. You will most likely notice that the default settings work properly.

It turns out that Primtux is a French distribution that seems extremely instructive.

Then I decided to test one of my favorite distributions on the list, Elementary OS 8.0. I could test Elementary OS in demo mode, but there was an option to install. Unfortunately, when selecting a drive, the installation has stopped what I experienced on virtual machines at Elementary OS.

To my next test.

This time, Bodhi Linux and I went directly to the installation.

No cubes. Since there was not enough space on the virtual drive, I had to switch to live mode and test Bodhi Linux without installing it. It's good that live Linux works well. Bodhi Linux worked very well about DistroSea, which was not a surprise. Bohdi Linux is a lightweight distribution that also runs exceptionally well on older hardware.

Although I did not feel the same nostalgia as the Virtual OS Museum, I can imagine that this website is an absolute treat for anyone who wants to see how a certain Linux distribution looks and behaves. Finally, testing distributions via a website is much faster than downloading an ISO, creating a live USB drive with the ISO, booting from the USB device and testing a live instance.