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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

  • bizdelnick
    10·
    11 months ago11 months ago

    You don’t have to clean your ~/.cache every now and then. You have to figure out which program eats so much space there, ensure that it is not misconfigured and file a bugreport.

  • sebsch
    00·
    11 months ago

    Even better: mount ~/.cache as ramfs. It will also speed up some apps significantly.

    • reddEnglish
      00·
      11 months ago

      I always felt that there should be some user directory like /tmp/ which will be wiped regularly.

      • Krause [he/him]
        03·
        11 months ago11 months ago

        /tmp and /var/tmp are writable to regular users on most distributions

  • ryannathans
    00·
    11 months ago

    I did this and now my games have no icons in lutris, some of my gnome settings got reset and my proton email bridge stopped working

    • lloram239
      00·
      11 months ago

      Time to write some bug reports. ~/.cache is supposed to be disposable.

    • Iapar
      00·
      11 months ago

      You shouldn’t have done that Dave.

    • MangoPenguinEnglish
      00·
      11 months ago

      For some reason devs can’t wrap their head around cache being temporary.

    • sebsch
      00·
      11 months ago

      So the apps are broken. Cache is meant to be deleted at any time

  • Jinn
    01·
    11 months ago

    This is one of those things that makes me shake my head about Linux. It’s these small dumb problems that make Linux inaccessible to the common person.

  • Lionel
    01·
    11 months ago

    This is why Linux sucks!

    • PixxlMan
      10·
      11 months ago

      Windows famously never generates any garbage files. It’s so reliable all servers run windows. Right?