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I've used finnix forever as my go to live recovery distro, and have never heard of knoppix.

From a cursory search, it appears that finnix is focused on the command line while knoppix provides a desktop environment. Don't most distros offer live boot environments these days? I know I've done this with Fedora, Debian, Suse, and Alpine at least..

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> From a cursory search, it appears that finnix is focused on the command line while knoppix provides a desktop environment

if knoppix was one of the first live distros to offer a full desktop environment, that's definitely what they got right.

Yeah, in my book (used Knoppix, never heard of or don't remember Finnix), Knoppix had 2 uses: restore systems but primarily try out if Linux worked on an unknown PC. And also run Linux on Windows PCs at school.

> Don't most distros offer live boot environments these days?

That wasn't a thing in 2007.

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