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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Game over.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

haunting you for the holiday πŸ‘»

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alright, have an upvote πŸ‘

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?

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months 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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[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There is literally written that :q to exit!

[–] prex@aussie.zone 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says β€œadd ! to override”

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

If you read the clues, yes.

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The secret final boss is Windows ME though...

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[–] PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] lung@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Where my freebsd homies at

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That looks purple to me, clearly not a BSOD.

For real though, a QR code for a kernel panic? πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

[–] lung@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Seems dope, I mean, your computer don't work and retyping text is lame

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

God.

You patch God out of TempleOS

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

windows 10: uninstall edge

windows 11: uninstall copilot

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

windows: uninstall

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[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months 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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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee

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[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Instructions almost clear..

sudo uninstall windows

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months 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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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] Carlcarla@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn't using Skype anyways.

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Network printer will change your life for the better.

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[–] sep@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Guru meditation

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months 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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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

I figured systemd is a 90s-JRPG boss with multiple phases taking over more and more of the screen.

You hold up a Slackware CD like some sort of vampires-and-faith-objects bit.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago (14 children)

The shutdown button, a very anti climactic finale

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[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

It would be General Failure reading the disc. I would fsck him up, and replace disc if necessary.

Yes, I know those may be different oses, but I was thinking multiplatform

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable

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[–] IsusRamzy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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