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www.omgubuntu.co.uk System Cleaner BleachBit Sees First Release in 2 Years - OMG! Ubuntu

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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Man, I remember using this app and checking too many boxes and then it borked my system so bad that I had to reinstall.

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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.

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- Yea indeed no need under Linux
  
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  No need under Windows either. Hasn't been since Windows 98.
  
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  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.
  
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  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.
  
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Anyone else remember how this program got famous?

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- 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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- Clinton
  
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- Was it because of a rm -rf /?
  
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  Close.
  
  2016 US presidential election race.
  
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- CCleaner started with ads so we moved to BleachBit
  
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  Also did a little light data harvesting.
  
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- Buttery Males
  
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