Windows
Solution
The images in the puzzle are rectangles consisting of some text, with holes taken out of them.
All the text directly hints at flavor texts of different modules.
Within each manual, there is a single page such that if you place these rectangles on top of them using image editing software, will reveal a cryptic clue, as shown below. Using dark mode as the flavor text suggests makes them easier to see. Note this process can be a bit fiddly.
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Solving the cryptic clues and then indexing them using the page number used in each manual yields one letter per manual.
| # | Manual page | Cryptic clue | Answer | Index |
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| 1 | Piano Keys, page 1 | what can you call your father figure (four) | PAPA | P |
| 2 | Web Design, page 2 | the name for a small area of land surrounded by water (six) | ISLAND | S |
| 3 | Nonogram, page 1 | the one with the manual in bomb game (six) | EXPERT | E |
| 4 | The Swan, page 2 | what you get after adding numbers together (three) | SUM | U |
| 5 | Splitting The Loot, page 1 | what are in the bags that have a letter number combination (seven) | DIAMOND | D |
| 6 | Unfair Cipher, page 3 | us state where snow is so rare the wikipedia page called snow in % is featured (seven) | FLORIDA | O |
| 7 | The Deck of Many Things, page 1 | home of fresno, sacramento, san diego, del mar (ten) | CALIFORNIA | C |
| 8 | Microphone, page 2 | old module about various currencies (three words) (twenty) | FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES | O |
| 9 | The Kanye Encounter, page 2 | edmund (six) | EDMUND | D |
| 10 | Watching Paint Dry, page 1 | number below plus three (5) | EIGHT | E |
Taking these indexed letters in reading order reveals the answer.
PSEUDOCODE