Re: Mac Computer Cleaner Software
Kenneth Calimlim
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BleachBit fits this bill neatly. Everything that it will clean - is a checkbox. And, it has clear descriptions in the right pane of what it all means.
There is no invasive cleaning done in secret. Zero.
The GUI is reasonably simple, though it is more complex than UbuntuCleaner. It is equal to Sweeper.
Do Not Stress It.
If you are unsure... Leave It. It's ok. Many of these config files that remain behind are in the size range of 10's of Bytes to maybe 500 bytes in size. Which on a half-terabyte drive, is approximately 0.00000000005% of your available space.
Is that really worth sweaty palms over?
Users can easily get carried away with cleaning and it often is on par with them trying to clean their living room carpet with tweezers.
@Turtle11, looks like Sweeper deletes what the basic Zorin OS Core can already delete by default, from Settings > Privacy > File History & Trash Bin. The only addition is probably the feature to remove thumbnails files. Then I clean my browser stuff manually, because some cookies and temporary files have data that I want to keep. Also, some cleaning features are aimed to KDE and I don't have it, not yet for now. @swarfendor437, I tried Stacer and it's weird that misses of network usage history save feature seeing that has many other features. I couldn't even send a feedback, it was always failing . For network usage history save I may use Trippy but has a weird and probably complex GUI.
Do Not Stress It.
If you are unsure... Leave It. It's ok. Many of these config files that remain behind are in the size range of 10's of Bytes to maybe 500 bytes in size. Which on a half-terabyte drive, is approximately 0.00000000005% of your available space.
Yes, I know that most of them are tiny. I just can't stand leaving uninstallation residuals. Obviously I don't remove folders with names or part of names of deleted software unless I am sure that they are actually residuals of them. Now I go, I have to clean my bedroom with tweezers .
@SignorCastello, from BleachBit screenshot looks like it's structured like Wise Disk Cleaner and other WiseCleaner software that I was using with Windows, so simple lists with checkboxes, nothing too complex for my eyes.
What @zabadabadoo was referring to was that it runs the same commands that you would run in terminal behind that GUI screen. Not that it runs commands "behind your back" when you are not actively using the application.
BleachBit is not automated and it will not run at all unless you launch it and operate it.
It does not run in the background. When you close it - it fully closes and kills the process. So if you launch it again after closing it, it must fully initialize.
@SignorCastello, from Bleachbit screenshot looks like it's structured like Wise Disk Cleaner and other WiseCleaner software that I was using with Windows, so simple lists with checkboxes, nothing too complex for my eyes.
I installed BleachBit and I'm going to try its cleanings progressively, there are so many options. Looks like it detects the installed software and loads its own section with cleaning options to choose according to the superfluous file types that the software can generate, right?
I'm not so sure now that I viewed the whole list, I see entries for software that I never installed, like Nexuiz by AlienTrap Games, Opera, Pale Moon, Skype and Zoom, plus many more. I don't like that developers add stuff assuming that the user has it, like bloating phones with Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and other stuff assuming that the user use it like a standard.
I see entries for software that I never installed, like Nexuiz by AlienTrap Games, Opera, Pale Moon, Skype and Zoom, plus many more. I don't like that developers add stuff assuming that the user has it
At the beginning BleachBit would have about 200 entries, considering that 90% of them are software that I don't have at all.
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Luckily enabling Hide irrelevant cleaners on Preferences I reduced the list to only 7.
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Then the progress bar is faulty, it's at Done. (Fatto.) despite its appearance shows a running process that doesn't really exist. However, a Discord cleaning makes Discord lose my verification so I have to register again but I see no Password or anything related to authentication or user profile entries for it. Moreover, BleachBit is unable to locate uninstallations residuals, I opened /home/.var/.app and found 2 files myself. Of course there are many more scattered around.
@catlikehana, I see that your command updates and upgrades but I don't want to do both automatically since there are some updates that I don't download and I don't want to update yet for safety. @Storm, I know, but I have enough experience to know which options to check to the cleanings and which not since when I was using Windows I used much WiseCleaner software that clean the cache, delete thumbnails files and any other stuff that BleachBit does, but I see that BleachBit hasn't 1 thing that I wanted. Probably the only way to brick a Linux distro is when these apps remove critical configuration files or dependencies, or part of them, but usually these apps aren't mean to delete such important stuff, they show a clear warning before proceeding or separate it in a section for advanced users. I see that BleachBit limits itself to common cache, thumbnails data, trash bin, clipboard and other harmless entries.
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