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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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    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.

  • @sep
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    Guru meditation

    • @over_cloxOP
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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.

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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

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

    • @fluxion
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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.

      • @over_cloxOP
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        Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…

        • @fluxion
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          I don’t even

          • @over_cloxOP
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            haunting you for the holiday 👻

    • @over_cloxOP
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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?

      • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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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.

  • Scott
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    TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

      • @over_cloxOP
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        That game is too easy though, it crashes itself.

        • @[email protected]
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          You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.

    • TheTechnician27
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      We all know that CIA prison escape segment was harder than any of the bosses, though.

  • @JackLSauce
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    Grub Rescue

    Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game

    • @over_cloxOP
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      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…