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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by donmcronald on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:34PM (#35329667)
> the vast majority of the time

It's the times when it breaks that make the difference for me. One Windows, most breakage is an annoyance. On Linux it can grind my day to a halt. Here's something I did on an Ubuntu install recently.

    apt install python3
Oops. That's not what I wanted.

   apt autoremove python3
OMG! What have I done! IIRC that stripped out so much stuff I didn't even have networking. Lol.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by dizhn on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:06PM (#35347838)
Does autoremove take a package name parameter? Did you mean something else?
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by donmcronald on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:45PM (#35364201)
I guess so. I just tested it and 'apt autoremove python3' seems to be the equivalent of

    apt remove python3
    apt autoremove
The above also leaves you with no GUI and broken networking.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by dizhn on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:51PM (#35377305)
Good to know. Thanks for the followup.
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