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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
Man, I remember using this app and checking too many boxes and then it borked my system so bad that I had to reinstall.
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
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.
Anyone else remember how this program got famous?
I had encountered it a lot before the whole "what, with like a cloth or something?" thing (it was basically everyone's FOSS answer to CCleaner), but I did find it funny when they used that whole situation as a "selling point" on their site.
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