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If you ‘play’ an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?
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If you ‘play’ an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?
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  • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    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@lemmy.world
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      Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

      The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        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

        • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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          Blue screen of victory?

          Fuck, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! 😂🤣

  • @superkret@feddit.org
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    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.

  • NutWrench
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    If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

  • @Aeri@lemmy.world
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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

  • @bokherif@lemmy.world
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    UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable

    • Billegh
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      I dunno, wlxaa392a001f7d has a nice ring to it

  • @benny@reddthat.com
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    Make your own, and don’t be so professional about it.

  • @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      Instructions unclear, uninstall what?

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

  • @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    God.

    You patch God out of TempleOS

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      Happy cry Linux mode activated… 🐧

    • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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      Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater

      • sunzu2
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        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.

        • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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          I literally only have it on a work laptop to keep os familiarity in my toolkit (tech)

  • @WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    windows 10: uninstall edge

    windows 11: uninstall copilot

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      windows: uninstall

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

  • @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
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    John mcafee’s ghonnerea

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      I’m just gonna leave this here…

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

  • chingadera
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    Bill Gates, communism.

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      William Gates retired, MicroShaft is now headed by Satya Nadella, who is apparently some fuckwit that’s out of touch with humanity.

      • chingadera
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        i do know that, Bill wasn’t innocent either. I do like quite a bit of what he’s doing, but back in the day that was a ruthless motherfucker.

        • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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          You are aware that communism ≠ capitalism ≠ dictatorship right?

          People (often brainwashed US citizens) throw that communism word around as if it’s somehow bad.

          • chingadera
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            That was a legitimate answer

  • @IsusRamzy@lemmy.ml
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    If it’s unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy! If it’s windows, nah, it will win.

  • @orockwell@lemmy.world
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    Love this Insert Credit type question

  • @isgleas@lemmy.ml
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    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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