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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.

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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.

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

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      So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

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      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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      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?

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        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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      Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.

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      There is literally written that :q to exit!

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

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          and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says “add ! to override”

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            True.

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

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          Ooh, living life dangerously.

          I would not like to have that as a finger habit!

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        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

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        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.

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    windows 10: uninstall edge

    windows 11: uninstall copilot

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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

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    TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

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      The secret final boss is Windows ME though

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        That game is too easy though, it crashes itself.

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          You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.

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      We all know that CIA prison escape segment was harder than any of the bosses, though.

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

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

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      Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater

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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.

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

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      Happy cry Linux mode activated 🐧

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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
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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.

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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

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          Blue screen of victory?

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

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    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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      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

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    UNIX: rename your NIC to something human readable

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      I dunno, wlxaa392a001f7d has a nice ring to it