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.
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Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano
Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.
- 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! ๐๐คฃ
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.
Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO
Instructions almost clear..
sudo uninstall windows
Figuring out how to print...nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky
Network printer will change your life for the better.
3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it's appalling
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The shutdown button, a very anti climactic finale
Who needs a button?
shutdown -s -f -t 0
Edited to include the missing -s argument
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Make your own, and don't be so professional about it.
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.
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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!
If you read the clues, yes.
Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.
Ooh, living life dangerously.
I would not like to have that as a finger habit!
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Blue screen of death and you defeat it by installing linux.
Tsch, that's the opening sequence.
"You have broken free! Now what do you want to do?"
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
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God.
You patch God out of TempleOS
Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.
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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
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Uninstall Skype
Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn't using Skype anyways.
Guru meditation
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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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.
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