ccleaner for linux. Useful?

[GreyGeek]

I haven't found a need for any of those kinds of utilities. Usually the big problem is firefox history and cache, which I handle through FF, careful not to erase my login accounts and password because I no longer remember any of them. Telling bleachbit what not to delete/scrub is more of a pain them doing it myself. What's really nice is when I decided to clean house I create a pre-snapshot (I use btrfs) and after I am done I create a post snapshot. IF, after a while everything still works OK I delete the pre snapshot. If not, I roll back to it and recover what I had before the disaster.

[vsreeser]

Checked out bleachbit. Haven't done anything with it yet.

Windows software itself is not useful on linux, but some of the ideas are good. Games that work on wine might be the exception for a little time wasting distraction.

I'm wondering if something similar to ccleaner would be useful on a Linux machine with plenty of space.
Deleting the cache for Firefox will not increase speed, and in some case, may actually slow it down a bit by removing cached graphics for frequently visited sites. For this reason, I do not clean the browser cache on my windows machine. I actually keep the caches in both windows and kubuntu on a ramdrive. The ramdrive is copied to the hard drive hourly, so it persists across reboots. It may help to clean some other temp files however.

So, I'm putting the question up for opinion vote.

Windows software is never useful on Linux.

[Qqmike]

I'm with Vinny on this,

bleachbit and purging your old kernels ,,,keep 2 the newest and last one before.

You can pick and choose what Bleachbit cleans.

[woodsmoke]

verrrrryyyyyyy interesting!

woodsmoke

[vinnywright]

bleachbit and purging your old kernels ,,,keep 2 the newest and last one before.

Package: bleachbit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 1,950 kB
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (>= 2.6) | python-simplejson, python-gtk2 (>= 2.14), menu
Recommends: python-notify
Download-Size: 251 kB
Homepage: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Description: delete unnecessary files from the system
 BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
 privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files,
 cookies, and broken shortcuts.
 .
 It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash,
 GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild,
 Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.
 .
 Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide
 previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of images),
 vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without deleting data), and
 securely shreds arbitrary files.

VINNY

[vsreeser]

I'm wondering if something similar to ccleaner would be useful on a Linux machine with plenty of space.
Deleting the cache for Firefox will not increase speed, and in some case, may actually slow it down a bit by removing cached graphics for frequently visited sites. For this reason, I do not clean the browser cache on my windows machine. I actually keep the caches in both windows and kubuntu on a ramdrive. The ramdrive is copied to the hard drive hourly, so it persists across reboots. It may help to clean some other temp files however.

So, I'm putting the question up for opinion vote.