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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system

    • Jinn@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They do have small annoying issues. This is not one of them. This is something that would completely baffle a non-tech literate person. They’d just observe their computer becoming slow or not having space and say “well, Linux must have broken my computer.”

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, you never hear such complaints about Windows or MacOS.

        BTW can you recommend any good tools to cleanup my registry?

      • fluffyb@lemmy.fluffyb.net
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        1 year ago

        I once had a huge 20ish GB file in windows I could not get rid of, move, or delete. It was related to hibernation or something like that… Even though I had hibernation disabled and no amount of googling could get rid of the file.

        This is something that would completely baffle a non-tech literate person. They’d just observe their computer becoming slow or not having space and say “well, my computer just broke itself better throw it in the trash and get a new one”