Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareIs CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?Paradachshund@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-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-squaresanataseva@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAbsolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.
minus-squareParadachshund@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAwesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBe very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
minus-squareAlolanYoda@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year 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-up1·1 year 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-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoroot directory? why are you running bleachbit on linux??
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhy? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol
minus-squareLostXOR@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoProbably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year 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.
Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.
Awesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!
Be very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂
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??
Why? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol
Probably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.
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.