h the original
    :py:func:`platform.linux_distribution` function, supporting a subset of
    its parameters.

    The data it returns may not exactly be the same, because it uses more data
    sources than the original function, and that may lead to different data if
    the OS distribution is not consistent across multiple data sources it
    provides (there are indeed such distributions ...).

    Another reason for differences is the fact that the :func:`distro.id`
    method normalizes the distro ID string to a reliable machine-readable value
    for a number of popular OS distributions.
    zĘdistro.linux_distribution() is deprecated. It should only be used as a compatibility shim with Python's platform.linux_distribution(). Please use distro.id(), distro.version() and distro.name() instead.é