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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] Aeri 8 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee

[–] over_clox 3 points 1 day ago

Instructions unclear, uninstall what?

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

windows 10: uninstall edge

windows 11: uninstall copilot

[–] TonyOstrich 2 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] over_clox 4 points 1 day ago

windows: uninstall

[–] bokherif 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable

[–] bhamlin 3 points 16 hours ago

I dunno, wlxaa392a001f7d has a nice ring to it

[–] turbowafflz 109 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

[–] fluxion 25 points 2 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.

[–] over_clox 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] over_clox 21 points 2 days 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 26 points 2 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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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There is literally written that :q to exit!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

True.

I tend to use ZZ it ZQ instead. Its been a while.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

If you read the clues, yes.

[–] multifariace 10 points 1 day 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.

[–] over_clox 3 points 1 day ago

Have an upvote just for commenting.

Yes, there's always gonna be some sort of tech bias regarding such questions. Every OS has flaws, somewhere..

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.

[–] PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not the glowies?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

God.

You patch God out of TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I literally only have it on a work laptop to keep os familiarity in my toolkit (tech)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] sep 11 points 1 day ago

Guru meditation

[–] JackLSauce 18 points 2 days ago (1 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO

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[–] Carlcarla 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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