<div class="article-header color-accent bg-base inner-contain  " style="margin: 0px auto; max-width: 700px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><div class="article-header-headline headline-embed" style="padding: 1rem 1rem 0.75rem; z-index: 2;"><div class="content-data light-text" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 2; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.2px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1560606027939"><br></div><h1 class="font-base" style="margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block-end: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Merriweather, serif; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: -0.1px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1560606018098">How To Test Drive 200+ Linux Distributions Without Ever Downloading Or Installing Them</h1></div></div><div class="article-body inner-contain fs-article font-body color-body" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.63; font-family: tabular-numbers, Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; padding: 0px 1rem; z-index: 10; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 700px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;">I’ve written about <a data-ga-track="InternalLink:http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/27/choosing-linux-2-awesome-tools-to-find-your-perfect-linux-os/" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/27/choosing-linux-2-awesome-tools-to-find-your-perfect-linux-os/" target="_top" style="color: rgb(0, 56, 145); text-decoration-line: none;">two fantastic tools</a> that help people discover the ideal Linux distribution tailored to their needs and expectations, but a new tool just materialized on my radar and frankly, it’s blowing my mind. I just took Debian 9.9.0 Cinnamon, MX Linux 18.3 and Peppermint OS for a quick test drive. But I did so without downloading any ISOs, without flashing any images to a USB, and without even firing up VirtualBox. That’s thanks to <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://distrotest.net" href="https://distrotest.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 56, 145); text-decoration-line: none;">DistroTest.net</a>, a website that streams the experience right to your browser.</p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_28481" style="position: relative; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; margin: 1rem 0px;"><div class="article-body-image" style="font-family: tabular-numbers, Georgia, "Droid Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; position: relative; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden;"><amp-img alt="200+ Linux distributions at the tip of your fingers with DistroTest.net" class="i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-layout" height="399" i-amphtml-layout="responsive" layout="responsive" role="button" src="https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x399/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonevangelho/files/2019/06/poster-1200x675.jpg?width=960" srcset="https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x399/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonevangelho/files/2019/06/poster-1200x675.jpg?width=960 820w, https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x399/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonevangelho/files/2019/06/poster-1200x675.jpg?width=960 1200w" tabindex="0" width="711" i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-visited="" lightbox="i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-0" style="display: block; position: relative; overflow: hidden !important;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1560605991975"><i-amphtml-sizer style="display: block; padding-top: 184.062px;"></i-amphtml-sizer><amp-img alt="200+ Linux distributions at the tip of your fingers with DistroTest.net" class="i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-layout amp-hidden" height="399" i-amphtml-layout="responsive" layout="responsive" placeholder="" src="https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/71x39/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonevangelho/files/2019/06/poster-1200x675.jpg?width=960" srcset="https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/71x39/https://blogs-images.forbes.com/jasonevangelho/files/2019/06/poster-1200x675.jpg?width=960 820w, https://thumbor-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/71x39/https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