BleachBit, after using the app with these settings, I can’t restart or shut down the computer!
Would it be a good app or
do you guys recommend me another app to clean temporary files.
Best App:
rm -Rf ~/.cache
Cache is gone.
/tmp which is temporary, is a tmpfs anyway (exists only in RAM/SWAP)
Firefox: Just go to about:support and cleanup Firefox. Or just disable the cache if you have enough RAM. You can clean it in the settings if needed: about:preferences
Really, those Apps like Bleachbit are nonsense for me, just like CCleaner on Windows. It just gives you a feeling of being clean.
Duplicates on the file system are more important.
qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logout
qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logoutAndReboot
qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logoutAndShutdown
or
systemctl reboot
systemctl poweroff
?
I can’t read your screenshot (partly Spanish), however, make sure that under System
Clean RAM
is disabled. Otherwise the system will get unstable!
(Some Distros don’t like clean Temporary Files as well).
Don’t clean System temporary files, those get cleaned automatically when it’s safe to do so.
Just reboot using one of the commands @cscs gave you and all should be fine.
Avoid BleachBit like the PLAUGE. Use Stacer.
BleachBit on Windows no, CCleaner on Windows YES. CCleaner is more like Stacer in Linux.
Im using BleachBit since 3years on Manjaro KDE with my Laptop and PC and absolute no issues with my settings:
Get sure you have everything closed when you clean your system and better only run it befor you doing a shutdown/restart soon.
I also try Stacer (3years ago) but i cant recommend and it was strange ressource heavy when i had it running.
Someone asked for another cleaner - sweeper is one such cleaner from the repos. Pretty simple, but safe. I actually managed to break my first Ubuntu back in 2007 with some of these “cleaners”. Now i am cleverer.
As a general note, linux needs a lot less cleaning than windows. Potential space eaters are the logs and cached packages. The first is limited by default. The second is cleaned automatically once a week (everything above the last 3 versions of the installed packets). Maybe something one would periodically want to clean (or not) is the thumbnail cache. Or maybe disable the service on a system with a lot of multimedia.
Everything else is just a convenience - for example, firefox can be cleaned from within. Or even automatically.
If a beginner user decides to use such programs, i would advise against everything in deep scan (except maybe the thumbnails), and pretty much everything in the system category, except the trash and the recent docs.
That what broke he’s System will be to run the Setting System/memory and Free disk space, that is what broke my VM at testing it.
So my recommendation is to use a Virtual machine first, for anything that sync are delete your files.
Also, Stacer cleans some rest stuffs after run bleach bit, so stacer is my prefer choice on Linux
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his System*
VM or Create a backup with timeshift.