I built a quiz that doesn't tell you which distro you "are": it hands you a complete Linux blueprint and a prompt to walk you through the switch

The site is yearoflinuxdesktop.org \- part manifesto, part quiz, part blueprint generator.

The idea: instead of another "what distro am I?" personality test, it maps your hardware, your tolerance for tinkering, and what you still need from Windows/macOS onto one of ten archetypes (The Civilian gets Linux Mint, The Arch Wizard gets Arch + Hyprland, The Gamer gets Bazzite, etc.). Then it writes you a copy-paste prompt you can feed to any LLM to walk you through the install step by step.

What might interest this sub: the scoring engine is one dependency-free JS file that runs identically in the browser and in a build harness. The harness brute-forces all 16M possible answer combinations on every deploy to verify that named personas land where they should and that guardrails hold (e.g., terminal-phobic users can never receive Arch). The quiz weights, the questions, and all ten archetype blueprints are plain JSON in the repo: MIT licensed, fork it, argue with the weights.





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