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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
This is why Linux sucks!
Windows famously never generates any garbage files. It's so reliable all servers run windows. Right?
You don't have to clean your ~/.cache every now and then. You have to figure out which program eats so much space there, ensure that it is not misconfigured and file a bugreport.
So OP's headline should be saying instead: Reminder to CHECK your ~/.cache folder every now and then
just symlink ~/.cache to /dev/null
Cache exists for a reason, that sounds like itd break programs, a safer method is probably having it be a ramdisk
This is one of those things that makes me shake my head about Linux. It's these small dumb problems that make Linux inaccessible to the common person.
