Cleaning software

[nomko]

Hi,

I have experience with Bleachbit. Bleachbit can be compared with Ccleaner for Windows. When you install Bleachbit, you will get 2 menu entries: Bleachbit and Bleachbit as root.

The first entry will only clean your personal folder. The other entry will clean root ( / ) as well. It contains a variety of cleaners for several applications.

Bleachbit can be handy if you want to have a central location to clean your system. It will take over some basic actions/controls of other programs and performs in some cases even a better cleaning action.

There are rumours going around that Bleachbit destroys complete installations, but if you ask those persons directly about this they will come up with answers like I heard this and that from that person who saw this and that.... Most replies will stick to the category rumours. Also keep in mind that the version provided by Mint and Ubuntu are older versions, running 1 or 2 versions behind the latest version available on the site of Bleachbit itself. Therefore it is always handy to either update or install the latest version as Bleachbit keeps improving and evolving.

But my experience is, that when you know what your doing, nothing can go wrong.

On the other hand, one should ask the following 2 questions:
1) Am i able to set up every application in such way that it cleans up itself when closing that application? (i.e.: set up Firefox such way that it cleans up cookies, browser history, etc. when closing Firefox)
2) Do i prefer having a central location where i am able to clean my system with a few mouse clicks in a easy to use GUI?

If the answer is Yes to question #1, you most probably don't need Bleachbit. If your answer is yes on question #2, then you could try out Bleachbit.

I even have some other solutions: https://sites.google.com/site/easytipsfo...n-up-linux. Especially the terminal commands should be more than sufficient to clean your system.

In an nutshell:

• Set up any application, if possible, to clean up it's own temporary files, cookies, history, log files, etc. when closing that application
  
• Run the terminal commands once a month
  
• Basically, Linux doesn't clutter up like Windows
  
• With the sizes of hard drives nowadays, will you really miss the amount of Mb's which are filled with temp. files, log files, cookies, etc.?
  

You will also see on my site a section for Deborphan. This application i use rarely but can be very handy to clean up any packages which are orphaned or no longer required. But this application is not for the inexperienced user since this tool really can break your system.