The perfect operating system does not exist. Although Linux-based operating systems are very stable and reliable, performance can always be lost due to files that are not needed for our everyday use. These files are usually saved by all systems to be able to access them more quickly, but if we are not going to use them again in the short term, the best idea might be to drop a bit of ballast. That is what it will help us to do BleachBit.
BleachBit is a small application that will take care of eliminating that type of file that we do not want to continue on our system. If you have used other tools of this type such as CCleaner o CleanMyMac, BleachBit will be familiar to you. Although it is true that its image is not as attractive as that of the programs mentioned, its operation is similar and, on the other hand, its ease of use also provides some security, since other applications can always eliminate something that we want to keep .
BleachBit will take care of removing:
- cache
- Cookies
- Temporary files
- History
- Chat logs
- Thumbs
- Download history
- Invalid shortcuts
- Debugging logs.
And files from:
- Adobe Reader
- APT
- Firefox
- VLC
- Flash
- GIMP
- thunderbid
- Chromium
- Epiphany
- Filezilla
- gFTP
- GNOME
- Google Chrome
- Google Earth
- Java
- KDE
- OpenOffice
- RealPlayer
- Skype or Whatsapp
- Many other programs
How to use BleachBit
I think BleachBit works very intuitive. Every time we install an application that can store unnecessary data on our computer, it will be added to BleachBit automatically. In this way, the application will appear on the left and on the right what we are going to do, is being done or has been done. For example, as you can see in the image that heads this post, I had selected the APT options of self-remove y autoclean. As an example it is valid, but in that case I usually use the commands sudo apt-get autoremove "program" o sudo apt-get autoclean "program" to perform those actions. On the right it showed me the files that would be deleted, if there were any.
Of course, when what we want is to clean the unnecessary data of an application, as is the case with Skype, Chrome or Firefox, BleachBit will be the simplest and fastest option. All we have to do is check the boxes that we want to analyze, click on Preview to know everything we can remove and then click on the Clean to clean this data. I think there is no loss.
If you want to try BleachBit you have to know that it is a free application, but it is not available in the default repositories. We can download it from your page official by clicking on the operating system that our computer uses. The downloaded file will be a .deb package that we will open by double clicking on it. Once opened with the Software Center, we just have to click install. What do you think of BleachBit?