I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel
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
haunting you for the holiday 👻
Alright, have an upvote 👍
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.
Kinguin ftw
So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.
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 “add ! to override”
True.
I tend to use ZZ it ZQ instead. Its been a while.
Ooh, living life dangerously.
I would not like to have that as a finger habit!
If you read the clues, yes.
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
People who have never had the pleasure of experiencing vim might not realize that the colon is a part of the command and will start recording a macro instead.
TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis
Oh shit…!
The secret final boss is Windows ME though…
That game is too easy though, it crashes itself.
You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.
We all know that CIA prison escape segment was harder than any of the bosses, though.
Not the glowies?
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? 🤦♂️
Seems dope, I mean, your computer don’t work and retyping text is lame
Tsch, that’s the opening sequence.
“You have broken free! Now what do you want to do?”
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.
Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater
That shit was the final straw for me…
I was spending so much time trying to fight it to stop doing weird shit that learning Linux was easier path forward.
I literally only have it on a work laptop to keep os familiarity in my toolkit (tech)
Happy cry Linux mode activated… 🐧
windows 10: uninstall edge
windows 11: uninstall copilot
windows: uninstall
Windows 10 DLC just dropped. Copilot added from Windows 11.
Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee
Instructions unclear, uninstall what?
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…
A friend of mine works in IT during the week.
On the weekend he works as barkeeper.
He keeps track of the tabs with a pencil on paper, adds them up with a mechanical calculator, and only accepts cash.
Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO
Instructions almost clear…
sudo uninstall windows
- 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
Blue screen of victory?
Fuck, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! 😂🤣
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.
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.
Brother laser printers.
Was shocked when it randomly showed ip everywhere automatically, it showed up and worked on my fresh freebsd install, I thought shit was haunted.
Uninstall Skype
Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn’t using Skype anyways.
