Cleaning Up EOS

During my incarceration period in Windows, the biggest reason I used Ccleaner was to clean up the Registry.

Fortunately, Linux doesn’t have a Registry (a chest of dark secrets) to worry about.

Pudge

EDIT:
Since linux does not have a Registry, I agree with @Kresimir

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Yes exactly. That is the biggest problem with Windows. Registry issues are common.

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The closest thing to a registry in Linux maybe the dconf user file that stores tons of settings in GTK desktops. It’s not really a registry, but it does have a nice gui editor tool to poke around and change various settings.

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I tried it today on a chrooted micro SD card

rm -rf /

didn’t work so I had to do

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

I think it removed everything except proc (I think that is mounted by arch-chroot)
Here is the result

rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/loginuid': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/sessionid': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/coredump_filter': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/io': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/uid_map': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/gid_map': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/projid_map': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/setgroups': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/timers': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove '/proc/143125/timerslack_ns': Operation not permitted
^C
[root@sra-odr /]# rm -rf
bash: /usr/bin/rm: No such file or directory
[root@sra-odr /]# rm -rf /
bash: /usr/bin/rm: No such file or directory
[root@sra-odr /]#
[root@sra-odr /]# pacman -Syy^C
[root@sra-odr /]# ls
bash: /usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
[root@sra-odr /]#
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Then there is always Bleachbit Very effective for cleaning up according to one former US polîtician :crazy_face:

didn’t Snowden recommend this as well?

I think Bleachbit mention Snowden on their page.