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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

  • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Well, they’re an Arch Linux user which is a special case. On Arch and derivatives it’s the user’s responsibility to manage the system so this doesn’t happen, configure cleanup daemons, flush package managers, etc., alternatively it could also be a misbehaving application which would have to be reported. Arch is for hobbyists who likes to do this.

    On other Linux distributions, Windows or macOS if this happens it’s usually an application not properly managing its cache.