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If you have debian or a debian based distro like mint, ubuntu, mx, etc and unlike windows linux just doesn't have a disk cleanup button. Well they do have a command that I've used many times and it has not screwed up anything in 5 years I've been running linux. Open the terminal, then type sudo apt autoremove then type in your password when it asks for it and just do what it says, dead simple. I just cleaned 245mb of unused files just now. Then I remembered to post this tip here.

If you have debian or a debian based distro like mint, ubuntu, mx, etc and unlike windows linux just doesn't have a disk cleanup button. Well they do have a command that I've used many times and it has not screwed up anything in 5 years I've been running linux. Open the terminal, then type sudo apt autoremove then type in your password when it asks for it and just do what it says, dead simple. I just cleaned 245mb of unused files just now. Then I remembered to post this tip here.

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I only use that for my boot sector to remove old grub files. That is a little to dangerous for the newbs on this sub. I also think they would find it intemidating to try to figure out which files were not in use so the autoremove is much safer and easier for them since they are not system admins on a server.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Also I wouldn't need the space but I'm running MX on a usb3 32gb stick so I'm constrained on space. I like to keep at least 8 gb free for downloading stuff till I transfer it to one of my storage drives. Got rid of steam because almost all their free games suck except for one space game you cleared out quandrants and that was fun but the betas done and now it costs money.