Linux
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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If you just want it to work, and you're coming from Windows or Mac, use Ubuntu. It's a nice intro, and the hardware support is excellent.
If anybody is so clueless about Linux that they need to take a quiz like this, they should probably just use something easy like Mint or Ubuntu.
I ran through this survey like questionnaire; deliberately skipping questions that would pigeon-hole me into Arch or some DE based decision (which is meaningless). [FYI I skipped the 'User Experience', 'Distribution: Scope' and 'Software:Updates' questions]
The useless thing ended up suggesting LITERALLY every linux distro. Here's a link the the results for a laugh https://distrochooser.de/en/d5fb48e83643/
No Linux From Scratch? Absolutely worthless.
Funnily i tried this as i was curious and it pointed me to the distro i was already using - Opensuse lmfao