Distrosea.com is a website where you can try out a wide variety of the most popular Linux distros. Also, make sure to create an account because it won’t let you use the internet without one. Have a nice day.
You have posted this before IIRC. I looked at it and did not find it very useful. When testing a distro you want it to work with your hardware.
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From my perspective only openSUSE products are the most popular… Have zero interest in any others, well except SLE products… 
I could see a few instances where this could be useful. Given all the distro choices out there, getting a quick live look at each one without having to install anything is a low-effort way to see which distro feels right to you, and to give you a chance to, for example, try KDE vs GNOME vs Cinnamon vs whatever. From there you narrow down your choices to a few to download live media for and try on your hardware.
If I needed a quick screenshot or look at how something looks or works in another distro, without downloading live media or installing it, if the UI is important.
If I wanted to do a quick test of something where using distrobox wasn’t going to be sufficient (and again, wanted to avoid downloading it).
I will say, though, I’m not enamored by the need for a Google or Patreon account to create an account. I understand why using oauth/oidc for login only is appealing - no need to really manage local user data, and that can save headaches around GDPR compliance for ‘right to be forgotten’ requests. Potentially (though there are always some remnants using those protocols).
It also would be more interesting to me if the operator of the site open sourced how they’re running the site. I prefer transparency when a smaller site like this asks for me to create an account. It looks like it’s probably a host running KVM with minimal specs per VM (4 GB of RAM and 2 CPUs).
It seems like they block Tor users.
That seems reasonable, as remote desktop can take significant bandwidth (and can be unpredictable). Not really what tor is meant to be used for.
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I mean the website. It’s impossible to even view the page.
Given the remote desktops are embedded in the website, it’s hardly surprising.
Lots of sites block Tor. 
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