Linux Tip | Keep It Clean!

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

Who would ever give your videos a thumbs down? Don’t these people enjoy learning. .

[@HungryGuyStories]

Windoze users?

[@conradgallardo9046]

Mak users?

[@32th]

A lot of times (maybe even every time) when my drive is getting full I look through it, clean it up and manage to clean up 100GB on average of useless data. Cleaning up every now and then is great piece of advice to give to any computer user.

[@ultradude5410]

This. Regardless of OS, there’s gonna be stuff lying around you don’t need anymore.

[@jadenpeterson2460]

Also, when you remove a repository, it's file is STILL kept in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Might want to take a look at that and delete those old files :)

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

When you said “the Kernel”.... i thought about fried chicken.

[@aj0d7A02e0w]

I have quite the same story with Lubuntu, which has been running since 2014. And I've never removed old kernels before. So thanks to your advice, I've just freed 7Gb on a root partition. Awesome! :)

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

7gb?

[@sheethersarine4175]

Sir, your videos are awesome and super easy to understand, thank you.

[@HungryGuyStories]

Microsoft made a big mistake with the registry file. Originally, it was just a file that told the OS what EXE program to run when the user clicked on a file with a particular extension. For example, .DOC opened the word processor, and .TXT opened the text editor, and .JPG or .GIF or .PNG opened the paint program. That was fine, but then they changed it to be an all-encompassing properties file for the the whole OS. That was a big mistake!

[@alfkh]

My understanding is Windows uses a filesystem swap which causes lots of files to be stuck in \winnt\temp. 1 can configure a filesystem swap in some proprietary UNIX systems, but largely, Unix & Linux systems use device swap.. Ubuntu 17.10(?) introduced the filesystem swaps, but ppl who know what swap does, usually configure a device swaps. As far as i know, device swaps are cleaned up periodically as files are closed & completely flushed back to disk after a reboot.

[@markschneider1396]

Until last December I'd had my 3rd gen Intel Core i7 desktop that I did upgrades in place for 9+ years and frankly the new machine seems no faster in practical use. So early Win 8.0 to Windows 10 2022 without a single clean install. I did clone the primary boot drive several times, because SSD drives used to be so expensive, but that shouldn't have made much difference.

[@FredPilcher]

I use Mint and I get kernel updates regularly. You can choose not to update it, but new versions are always offered.

[@merlin3717]

Fred Pilcher you do realise that this video is almost 4 years old and it’s possible that mint didn’t update the kernel back then

[@motoryzen]

16:58. It's not " solid state hard drive". It's simply " solid state drive", hence the abbreviation " ssd."

[@freddychampagne4467]

yeah, but ssd are 'hard' and not 'floppy' ;)

[@StillConfusing]

yeah, but sshd are hybrid drives

[@davidjudd221]

You stated that solidly.

[@Udhoi]

Thank you sir I always wanted to learn basic understanding of kernal. Now I do thanks to you! Keep it up!

[@jadenpeterson2460]

I usually run bleachbit (normal, with system options disabled), then the as root one. The reason I do this is because some options are removed on the elevated one (ones involving your home directory).

[@ts8538]

Your videos are invaluable to me. Thank you!

[@keithstarkey5584]

Joe, thanks much! I run Mint, and I have a ton of listings for what I guess are kernels beyond the few that I recognize; the one I know is installed and some recent ones (4.15.0-48.51, 50.54 and 50.52, all marked with a green-filled box). Beyond this, however, there are a bunch of "linux-image 4.15.0-1004 thru 1039, several 4.18.0.x listings, and on and on. I don't know if I can delete any of these (4.18 is supported until August this year). Very, very confusing. Not sure what to do here!

[@EzeeLinux]

Mint has tool for managing kernels in the 'View' menu of the update manager. Open it up and remove all the kernels that are not currently running.

[@keithstarkey5584]

@@EzeeLinux Well, I tried that, but there's no option or way (that I have found) to delete them that way, other than to click the button to remove old kernels. But all that does is once in a while delete maybe one, not all the many listed. I can't find a way to delete them. Weird.

[@EzeeLinux]

@@keithstarkey5584 You can't get rid of the list... That's part of the repositories. You only want to get rid of the ones that are INSTALLED.

[@keithstarkey5584]

@@EzeeLinux Ah, okay. Then I guess I'm good. Thanks much for the help and the vids!

[@haroldheinbaugh8230]

Good solid info and clear instructions.

[@ToeCramp]

Man I like your videos but as soon as I hear greetings and salutations I back out knowing the video is going to go on for ages. Maybe I just picked the wrong videos at the start. Looks like this ones not going to be THAT long so maybe I just need to give your awesome videos another chance :)

[@EzeeLinux]

My videos are in a podcast/vlog style format. Sorry if you're too impatient for that. U get many compliments on how I take my time and explain things in detail. You can't please them all.

[@JishnuWarrierA]

I learned almost everything I know about Linux is from you. Glad that you are doing this way.

[@sure5291]

Isn't it easier to install UKUU and get rid of the old kernels.

[@jaysmith9234]

Thank you Joe!

[@davidjudd221]

Anyone know why mint 19.1 64 bit Tara has such dull graphics? The brightness on the monitor is maxed out.

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

default. you can lower it from the settings.

[@trubadyr99]

Storage space with SSD's, not HD space!

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

Love your Videos !

[@fernabianer1898]

take a thumps up and a comment.. just for the rating

[@CarinoGamingStudio]

stacer and ununtu cleaner and thats it.

[@neko64gen2]

top video ubuntu 1604 sux moved to mx16 its debian with ubuntu ease of use GOD IT IS SO ROCK SOLID

[@YouHolli]

The times were Windows got slower and slower are long over. Why are you still perpetrating such a myth?

[@EzeeLinux]

'Cause it ain't no myth. I deal with Windows Refugees all the time and that's their number one complaint.

[@freddychampagne4467]

The only 'myth' I know about Windows is that it pretend to be an OS.

[@JAVowles]

Where's the Kool-aid? I am seriously considering Linux for that very reason. No one seems to know how to REALLY speed up Windows. The cleanup programs in common use don't do what they claim. Do you know of one that works? Also, the suggestions offered by the various communities and forums are not feasible for those among us who are not techies. Most of us don't understand what should be in the registry!

[@jaysmith9234]

That is dependant upon your sytem @@JAVowles