t 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