Which distro were you able to finish it with? Mostly A’s? Useful feedback. Thanks
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It was Lubuntu. Pretty close to (not listed) Ubuntu Mate. And yes, there were 8 A grades. I think that lower grades were due to simplified and/or symbolic nature of terminal ‘commands’. I did not catch that quick enough. BTW, I dearly missed <arrow up> 
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Thanks! Let me see what I can do about up arrow.
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Ha, this was really fun and cool to play! 
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I’ll try running the whole thing later; in the meantime, after answering the questions, the distros that get on my review and use list made it into the fight, so it did that part pretty well.
The first round of the fight was between two distros (Gentoo and Devuan) that don’t make it into the ring for me, but had I gone a few more rounds I think the ones I would pick probably show up for the championship!
Some day when I have more time and remember to try it out again maybe I’ll find out how well the algorithm actually works!
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Update: Part 2 of the campaign is now live. 
Thanks to everyone who played the first run and sent notes. The Reach is saved, but the Rot fled, wounded, into the dark links. Now you hunt it down!
New terminal stages take you from cold trail to cornered, ending in The Reckoning: a CLI boss fight against the Rot itself. Real commands.
What’s new:
- New hunt stages
- Play as any of 32 distros, each with its own progress.
- Progress now saves to the Reach’s network (which you restored in Part 1). Enter your email, get an access token, and pick the hunt back up from any machine (removes risk of losing your progress)
I hope you guys enjoy!
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Looking good. MX Linux and antiX outdueled everyone else in my configuration, just as I would expect.
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Sweet! Its amazing how much data can be gathered and predicted to some-level of usefulness from 8 questions. It for sure won’t be perfect, because some of us, myself included, avoids going with the top-4 distros that’s usually best suited for us on paper.
That said I am going to give it a go, namely…
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I always get NixOS, 4x trials all NixOS
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Saving your hunt
A quick word on how progress works once you hit the Hunt (stages 11+).
Through the first ten stages, which was less challeging and endless lives, your run just lives in your local browser. But now the Hunt has real stakes: lose to the Rot and that fighter goes down and the distro has to be reinstalled before it can run again.
For those stakes to actually mean something, and for the leaderboard to stay honest, the game has to track wins and losses somewhere that can’t be quietly edited or cache cleared away in your own browser.
So at the start of the Hunt you can save to the Reach with just your email:
- The Reach emails you a 6-digit access token — no password, nothing else to remember.
- Your fighters, ranks and progress now live on the network, so you can pick the hunt back up on any device — just sign back in.
- Put the Rot down and you earn a spot in the Hall of the Reckoning (the leaderboard), where you can claim a name.
- By default, your email is stored one-way (hashed). The address itself is only kept if you tick the box to hear about new chapters and game updates, and that’s the only thing it’s ever used for. Same as the forums and blog.
Don’t want to share an email?
You can still play the entire Hunt as a guest. There’s a “play on without an account” option right on that screen. The only catch: guest runs don’t show up on the stats page or the Hall of the Reckoning. This is because progress kept only in your browser can’t be verified, so counting it would let anyone top the board by editing local data or deleting broswer cache. Guests get access to the FULL game; their result is just not verified. So no pressure to save progress remotely, enjoy.
Good luck in taking out Rot! Hint: Some distro’s take longer to reinstall than others, I’m sure you can guess which ones.
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It was fun; that’s about as much “gaming” as I can handle; that’s never been a big thing for me, but here it sounded worth a try and it did well!
Hope that others have fun with it!
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Patched today. So that more advanced or rather less popular diff command options are accepted:
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Provided that there was original image in the backups I did not patched but tried to copy it over spoiled image 
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Facing the same question, is beating the boss ROT too difficult?:
Of course, I can only verify the 8 (7 not including me) who have verified results. Maybe for stage 15 the timer needs to be removed?
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You didn’t have to face me because I am not into this kind of thing. If you are competitive count yourself fortunate 
Just kidding; you’d probably send me into a torture chamber ! -
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Did not have the time yet to sit and try the 2nd batch of levels. My job is a bit demanding at the moment but that will be over in the next week
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I use Arch… but i absolutely dont agree with whatever is shown on distrofighter or “linuxblog best-linux-distro” (dont just blindly copy others opinions)
Fedora is as hard to use as Debian while Fedora ships a distro-updater and debian not?
Fedora is so easy to use, old boomers i wanted to teach about Linux tell me they have been running Fedora without tech knowledge and any help.
I mean they have a graphical tool for installing every software .
Sure Fedora is not “as stable as Ubuntu”, but its really easy to use.
And its sure as hell not as hard to use as debian is, on debian you need to edit the sources list to update the distro and then run apt distroupgrade in the terminal…
while fedora offers a simple “update to fedora ” GUI…
its a really nice looking site but gosh, please balance the distros for what they are.
also,
if i say “newest, bleeding edge” and you drop me the *buntu… bruh
what are you doing, give me at lease opensuse tumbleweed then
edit: it seems its not opensource, so the users can not even change your “facts”… nice try
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Hi @Cyon welcome our community. Thanks for taking the time to leave some feedback.
I was able to reproduce this in ~ 5% of answer combinations (3000+ possible) that include “newest, bleeding edge”. Will fix this shortly, so that *buntu can never be recommended when “newest, bleeding edge” is selected.
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@Cyon Welcome to our community!
“Ease of use” is a relative term. I say this because for a beginner, it’s important to be able to punch a few buttons here and there, at least to get started and learn.
For true long-time hard core veterans, the distributions that offer the most tools and stay out of your way otherwise, THOSE are the easiest, so for this “old as dirt” guy I prefer Debian-based systems, and in particular, Debian ALTERNATIVES that don’t require the user to have to use the systemd overhead. For me personally that means antiX Linux, which few people even know about, though in poor areas, that’s where people use systems that others have long discarded, and they pick them off the curb, the refurbishing center, or a friend who’s buying new equipment.
I have some recent vintage, but not brand new - the newest is a Gen 3 Lenovo Thinkpad 14; the oldest is a Dell Inspiron 5558. These work great with antiX. *buntu? Once in a great while I “check them out” to see what they’re doing. I try KDE Neon occasionally too, but I really don’t need any desktop environment; I just try stuff so I can speak with at least a little bit of intelligence when I’m discussing distributions and desktop environments.
I think it’s great that we have so many distributions available; that way there’s something for everyone!
Enjoy the forum; we’re glad you are here!
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Welcome to the community @Cyon, great to have you join us! 