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.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yea indeed no need under Linux

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No need under Windows either. Hasn't been since Windows 98.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly, FileLight and manually deleting folders and files is the way to go.

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

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.