Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agoIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1175arrow-down1message-squareIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-text
Has something new come along? It’s been so long since I’ve needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.
minus-squareAlolanYoda@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-27 months agoHow do you know? More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 months agoLet’s say, I checked too many boxes and messed with the root directory. Anything that shows as “slow” is dangerous
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·7 months agoroot directory? why are you running bleachbit on linux??
minus-squareLostXOR@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 months agoProbably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·7 months agoWhy? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months agoNot that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.
How do you know?
More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?
Let’s say, I checked too many boxes and messed with the root directory. Anything that shows as “slow” is dangerous
root directory? why are you running bleachbit on linux??
Probably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.
Why? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol
Not that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.