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ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:28:54 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> 
>> Melzzzzz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:05:46 -0500 DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/29/2016 7:22 AM, owl wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > A friend of mine who is in his sixties and very much a computer
>>>> > newbie, had been bringing his Windows 7 laptop over about once a
>>>> > month for the last year to have me fix various user screwups and do
>>>> > typical Windows maintenance issues (malware removal, etc.).
>>>> 
>>>> That's not a typical Windows maintenance issue.
>>>
>>> Ahahahhahah, sure not...
>>>> Surely you showed him some cli goodies?
>>>> 
>>>> Get list of user-installed packages:
>>>> 
>>>> Linux: click Start | Accessories | Terminal.  Then type:
>>>> 
>>>> dpkg-query -W -f='${PackageSpec} ${Status}\n' | grep installed |
>>>> sort -u | cut -f1 -d
>>>> 
>>>> Windows: click Start | Control Panel | Programs and Features
>>>
>>> Yeah, Linux does not have gui frontend for that...
>> 
>> Bullshit.
>> 
>> And the Windows "Programs and Features" GUI shows only a small number of
>> the stuff that is installed on the system.
>> 
>> It's pathetic.
> 
> What a load of crap the owl troll spews.

What crap did I spew, ronb?  Maybe you should learn how to
either read, and actually read my post, or else learn how
to keep up with thread attribution.

> I use Linux Mint. My 83 year-old 
> Dad uses Linux Mint. He doesn't have to bring it over for malware 
> maintenance because it works (unlike the malware magnet / bitrot magnet 
> Windows Crap). If he wants to see what GUI programs he has loaded, he 
> clicks the Menu button, clicks All under Applications and scrolls down 
> the list. Or he can Click the Menu button, then click Software Manager, 
> where he graphically views all installed programs by category -- or all 
> available programs by category. He can also install from the same GUI 
> Software Manager. I'm sure other distributions of Linux have similar 
> capabilities -- either pre-installed or available for installation. How 
> much more dishonest can these small-minded, lying trolls be?
> 

My 80-year old dad also runs Mint.  Before that he ran Ubuntu.
Before that it he ran SuSE.  I weaned him off Windows over 15
years ago.