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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...
It just happens that I tried to install a few of them the last 2 days.
That time with Ubuntu 25.10 and it worked, except selecting the default program for .txt files (I wanted to use Kate, but it throws an error)("Find new application" > Error > Failed to execute child process "gnome-software" (no such file or directory)).
All in all, it's nice to get an overview of what may be possible, but to test all of this is nearly impossible. I selected most installer options out of the box. Always chose disk encryption if possible. Over half of my installations in the last 2 days failed.
Yeah, I tried Cachy previously on my desktop and it was honestly an awful experience. But not really anything to do with the DE(s).