over_cloxtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml·4 days agoIf you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?message-squarearrow-up1150arrow-down112message-square99fedilink
arrow-up1138arrow-down1message-squareIf you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?over_cloxtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml·4 days agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareTurboWafflzarrow-up108arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkI say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel
minus-squaremuzzlearrow-up18arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkSo the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
minus-squarefluxionEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkThe fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts. Game over.
minus-squareover_cloxOParrow-up12arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkYour comment seems to have a ----- missing…
minus-squareover_cloxOParrow-up20arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkAlright, 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?
minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimiarrow-up27arrow-down1·4 days agolinkfedilinkWindows 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.
minus-squareInverseParallaxEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·4 days agolinkfedilinkKernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.
I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel
So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.
Game over.
Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…
I don’t even
haunting you for the holiday 👻
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?
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.
Kinguin ftw
Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.