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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The final boss was Arch in the early days.
The boss fight was troubleshooting your display settings in Xorg.conf blindly, because you didn't have any screen output after an update.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

[โ€“] [email protected] 108 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.

Game over.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Your comment seems to have a ----- missing..

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Alright, have an upvote ๐Ÿ‘

But.. If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn't that like cheating?

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (4 children)

There is literally written that :q to exit!

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

If you read the clues, yes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I typed :q and it just says :q on the bottom, all this advice and I'm still stuck in vim. My electricity bill has been high since 2022 because of this heavy editor with no x button

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Instructions unclear, uninstall what?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

windows 10: uninstall edge

windows 11: uninstall copilot

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

windows: uninstall

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Windows 10 DLC just dropped. Copilot added from Windows 11.

[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (6 children)

TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Blue screen of death and you defeat it by installing linux.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

God.

You patch God out of TempleOS

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
  1. First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
  2. Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you're presented with an orange game menu.
  3. You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
  4. You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
  5. Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
  6. A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
  7. Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That final boss is easy. Just do Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then start killing all processes one-by-one until you get the blue screen of victory

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am not nearly computer literate enough to understand what all these comments are talking about. But I expected personal bias to be one of the answers.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Grub Rescue

Same way you overcome any of life's challenges: decide it's impossible bullshit and move onto another game

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

BTRFS deciding it's corrupt and refusing even read only access.

Edit: You beat it by trashing the disk, using any other file system, restoring from backup and accepting any losses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I dunno, wlxaa392a001f7d has a nice ring to it

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Guru meditation

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have always found the manual of the manual page two a bit scary.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Figuring out how to print...nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it's appalling

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If it's unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy! If it's windows, nah, it will win.

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