I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.
Game over.
Your comment seems to have a ----- missing..
I don't even
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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?
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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So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
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There is literally written that :q to exit!
Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.
and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says βadd ! to overrideβ
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If you read the clues, yes.
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Blue screen of death and you defeat it by installing linux.
Then how do you defeat the new bsod in the Linux kernel? It's got a fancy QR code!!
(It's "install bsd" isn't it...)
Where my freebsd homies at
That looks purple to me, clearly not a BSOD.
For real though, a QR code for a kernel panic? π€¦ββοΈ
Seems dope, I mean, your computer don't work and retyping text is lame
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Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano
Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.
God.
You patch God out of TempleOS
Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.
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windows 10: uninstall edge
windows 11: uninstall copilot
windows: uninstall
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Grub Rescue
Same way you overcome any of life's challenges: decide it's impossible bullshit and move onto another game
I won't lie, I've considered almost totally giving up modern technology, and going back to refurbishing wristwatches like I did in my teens.
Analog/Digital? Hardly matters, as long as I can get parts..
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- First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
- Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you're presented with an orange game menu.
- You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
- You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
- Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
- A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
- Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.
The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.
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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Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO
Instructions almost clear..
sudo uninstall windows
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.
Uninstall Skype
Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn't using Skype anyways.
Figuring out how to print...nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky
3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it's appalling
Network printer will change your life for the better.
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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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Guru meditation
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
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.
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
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