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BleachBit, the popular free system cleaner, has just released a major update — its first since 2021. For those unfamiliar with it, BleachBit is an
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I remember using this a lot in my first year of migrating from Windows to Linux. It was engrained into me that my system will degrade if I don't "clean" it regularly, like on Windows.
Yea indeed no need under Linux
No need under Windows either. Hasn't been since Windows 98.
Old registry entries definitely slowed Windows down all the way up to Windows 7. I'm not sure if they fixed it with 8 or 10, but I don't think so since 10 slows considerably after just a few months.
Unless you desperately need to free up room in your tiny SSD to make room for Baldur's Gate 3. I recently used a tool like this to get rid of a bunch of old logs and things and managed to free up tens of gigabytes of precious space.
Honestly, FileLight and manually deleting folders and files is the way to go.
I do still like to clean out ~/.cache from time to time, often because of the thumbnail cache (which more or less rebuilds itself to the same size within a few days, so kind of pointless sometimes).
No need for an application, though. Just an alias (well, abbreviation in fish) when I feel it's getting too much.
It's completely pointless for anything else. This does remind me to check for empty or left over ~/.config and ~/.local/share folders, though. Haven't cleared those out in a while.