How to do an optimal cleaning of the system?

[j2mcgreg]

One question...When you have to delete a file in the system, do you delete the content(s) first, or do you just remove the file in question? Thank you.

Delete the file.

[davidy]

I tried bleachbit but found it to be useless overall. It might be good for those who play lots of games or browse questionable sites regularly but for the most part it's a worthless program for anyone who keeps their browsers and their work clean. In windows it's mandatory oth. I just set mx cleanup how I like and choose 'at reboot' to keep it simple. 'sudo apt autoremove' I use regularly whenever I remove packages and suspect there may be leftovers. Most times it finds nothing. All in all MX is a clean OS and that's the way linux should be. As well, I keep all actual data and backups, documents etc on a completely separate drive so that when I do a clonezilla backup it is as small as possible. Right now they are ~39Gb uncompressed for speed. No games or any special softwares installed either. I even placed my xnview db on my 2nd drive as it is huge at over 32Gb of thumbnails. Default was home-nope.

[keos]

Well, I think that then you have, compared to mine, '41%', much more space occupied than I do in MX-23, since I have wine installed, as well as programs like e-sword and chess, and the 'downloads' with information/data on biblical matters and chess and two browsers -- then I shouldn't be surprised, if, it weren't for the fact that I have the same thing installed in MX-21 with much less space occupied, (I must have been doing something very wrong in MX-23 that still I don't know what it could be -- since it's the one I use the most).

EDIT: Bleachbit in my case es very good!.

[BitterTruth]

Do you download/test any isos? I have some and each one is about 2-3gb sometimes 4gb.

[keos]

@j2mcgreg

I have a file that I had not seen before, it is called 'swapfile', it is 3GB, can it be deleted?. Thanks.