Created this retro web game to help match people with Linux distributions and desktop environments (still a few bugs especially in the campaign mode):
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This is so cool !! 
It’s not even “just a gimmick”. It puts forward some well thought out arguments as “strikes”. I love it !! 
EDIT: The campaign mode is captivating, can’t stop playing 
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I wondered if it was too difficult. Are you able to complete all 10 stages? I would like the campaign to be challenging but not impossible or frustrating.
Edit: I spoke too soon, someone beat it: 
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Good question. I swiftly flew through the first six of seven levels (but then I got a call for some work related assistance over the phone and closed the game).
For me it was pretty easy. But don’t forget that what the game asks is stuff that I’m used to do regularly, and I’ve been running Linux for over two decades so that is not a reliable indicator.
For a newbie it is probably very challenging (so the hints you have sprinkled in to prevent that they become stuck is a very good move) but at the same time it is highly educational because it teaches them the most important terminalcommands to fix things, commands you and I use regularly.
For a linux-veteran it is easy but absolutely entertaining. 
I will do another run but this time all the way through all 10 levels and I’ll let you know what I find.
b.t.w. I caught myself smiling the whole time i was playing it.
It reminds me of oldschool textadventures:
you are in a room with a door to the north and a door to the west. The doors are locked, there is a knife and a candle on the table…
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I was telling a friend about this the other day. Video games have changed so much, kids now have to be spoon-fed with minimaps and very light punishment for wrong decisions and errors. So many of the modern RPGs make sure you don’t get challenged so the user can just be happy with their progress.
If they had to play the RPG games we grew up on they would just smash everything up in frustration lol.
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To be honest. Some of those adventures in those days could be horribly difficult and unforgiving, taking sometimes days of pondering to crack a puzzle.
I still have the textadventure “the hichhikers guide to the galaxy” somewhere but never finished it. I died hundereds of times.
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I did all the ten levels. Ofcourse someone called me again and while I was on the phone I was also playing the game but I made a lot of real world Linux assumptions and typos
(I’m terribly bad at multitasking)
Nevertheless, I can assure you that it is absolutely not too difficult for beginners as long as they can read and follow instructions because, to my surprise, quite some handholding appears when you make a mistake so it is a very good and educational puzzlegame that can be really helpful for newbies to get into the linux way of thinking.
The answer to “More stages coming soon” is: Yes, more stages please because this is a lot of fun !!
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Rot needs to be elimiated! 
Noted, no hints and handholding for the final boss fight stages.
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Why am I not surprised ?
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Arch also has not one but two perks in the campaign mode.
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Don’t forget the newbies, leave them at least a small hint to prevent them become stuck.
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Noobies can play stages 1 to 10, then this:
Jk?!
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Yes indeed. You really got a point there. And if they are completely stuck, there is also linuxcommunity.io to pose questions
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Indeed! So there must be even more incentive to want to find Rot again and enough to want to eliminate him even when it feels challenging. So things must also get personal… Spoiler alert: the roll of your selected distro from 1-10 will play a larger more felt role.
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I used the role “gentoo” and it was straightforward. Now that you mentioned this, I changed the role to “ubuntu” and replayed a level again. I did not encountered anything different (at least not that I am aware of).
In what way does the chosen distro influences the gameplay ?
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With perks. For example strong documentation (Arch) reveals a hint up front, strong stability (Debian) softens the integrity hit when mistakes are made, a big community (like Ubuntu) lets you call for backup (additional hint), and so on.
Will make each distro progress specific, for now it’s not, I was not sure if anyone would want to replay lol.
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I send the link of the game to one of my best friends, a 100% Apple dude and a PS5 gamer.
Advice of the game: MX-Linux
Not bad at all 
He’s going for the campaignmode next
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For me its openSUSE TW + GNOME with XFCE #2. Never Kali 
, but to get Kali for a non-pentesting result, I would have to add my own biases 
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