If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?
If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?
Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee
UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable
windows 10: uninstall edge
windows 11: uninstall copilot
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.
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..
If it's unix,
sudo rm -rf /*the system without mercy! If it's windows, nah, it will win.- 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
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.
Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano
Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.
I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel
Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.
So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
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?
Seems relevant: https://youtu.be/nhv5uv6Na_A
That's extremely relevant LMFAO! 👍
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
Happy cry Linux mode activated.. 🐧
Guru meditation
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...)
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..
Not sure what the boss is, but SUDO
Instructions almost clear..
sudo uninstall windows
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
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
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.
3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it's appalling
Network printer will change your life for the better.
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.
Love this Insert Credit type question
John mcafee's ghonnerea
I'm just gonna leave this here...
Compiling the Linux kernel.
Make your own, and don't be so professional about it.
