How big is your / (root)?

[Soupy (Tim)]

My system is UEFI, GPT. I am turning secure boot off because getting the nvidia drivers to work with it did not look so “fun” to me

I’ve learnt now, through one lonely comment buried on an internet forum somewhere (so it must be trustworthy, right?), that Mint/Ubuntu mounts EFI partition to /boot/efi by default, which is why it doesn’t provide it as an option in the installer. So I’ll make my setup even less elaborate and just go with EFI, / and /home partitions.

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

@Soupy

Is there a cleaner for Linux that can remove that stuff? On Mac I sometimes used cleanmymac which could get rid of a couple gb every week just from regular use. First time I used it, after several years, it got rid of 20-30 gb. Makes a big difference when space is tight.

Yes, there is, but I ran it once and it was overly aggressive, so I uninstalled it. Now, I just clean up manually and occasionally. The tool is called BleachBit.

I ran an internet search on “linux system cleaner” and it returned quite a few articles. Here is just one: 7 of the Best Linux System Cleaning Tools - Make Tech Easier

[Jade_NL (Jacques)]

@Tim

Yes, there is, but I ran it once and it was overly aggressive

LOL

And I thought it wasn’t aggressive enough and build a script that incorporates BleachBit and does a lot of other cleaning. Not a script that can run on every Linux box, though. Kinda tailored to my Box and my paranoia.