Happy 2025 fellow chachyOSers 
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I recently switched from Windoofs to Linux / Cachy.
Much to my surprise i discovered that in Linux / Cachy too are lots of leftovers after deinstalling Apps, for instance in config folder.
Is there perhaps an app to clean up this leftovers (i’m aware of Bleachbit, but imho it doesn’t deal with these leftovers - or does it?)?
How should i go about this?
Any routine recommended?
You can just remove the configs if you have uninstalled the actual app.
Or just leave them, they usually (if they are just config files) don’t take that much space anyway
Leaving leftovers after deinstallation is not what i deem good practise.
Cachy is my first Linux OS, so i don’t know if other “Distros” do this better.
Configs are not usually removed anyway, atleast if they are in your home folders .config directory
Also what kind of “leftovers” are we talking about?
Config files retain after uninstalling if they are not part of the initial package. That includes user config files or additional .d files, etc, so anything that is not recoverable is saved.
If you want to track changes in you .config / .local / etc, you could use git and version control these.
Still don’t get why these leftovers are left over …lol.
Feels like littering …
If they are something that user has done, then it’s better that those would be saved and not managed by the actual app package.
They are mostly text files that take kilobytes of space (in general).
Still interested to hear what files you think are leftovers for example in your $HOME/.config/ folder
This is not Arch/CachyOS specific.
I have pruned a lot of these pesky leftovers. I also had lots in .lib. Can’t recall exactly which apps did this. From what i remember it mostly where audio an multimedia apps which i tried out after switching to Linux / cachy. Still i don’t get the logic why i’d like / want to keep my configs or libs, i f i don’t want to keep the corresponding app …