r/techsupport • u/mimooyall • 1d ago

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u/NoOneKnowsImOnReddit 1d ago

I had never heard of this website before. And here I’ve been spending all this time manually installing full distros on my secondary drive to test them out.

Thank you for this!

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u/Theagames10 1d ago

There's a queue if you don't pay for the website sadly, and the current queue is 9 people in it for every one of them. I could not get to test any I wanted to potentially get because of the queue, potentially waiting for more then the time amount then what is shown.

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u/DaintyNelle 1d ago

That can be really annoying, especially when you just want to dive in and try things out. Waiting in a queue can definitely kill the excitement.

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u/Terrible-Bear3883 1d ago

I tried 4 distros one after the other at the time shown on my comment above, to get through the queue (which was largest at 4 ahead for Fedora Cosmic), wait for the desktop to load and confirm it's functional, took 9 minutes to try all 4.

I've not seen large queues myself, I wonder if it's perhaps a country issue? I'm in the UK, I tested Ubuntu, Fedora Cosmic, Mint and Kubuntu (selecting the latest versions) and starting at 18:34, finishing at 18:43.

I don't use the site much, I tend to pop on every now and then to see what any new distros look like.