Comments on How to maintain a “clean” Ubuntu

Great article

very useful article... Just wanted to add that at the time being there's no official  Ubuntu-tweak for xenial... you only can find it in getdeb repositories... it behaves erratically as you have to kill it with your task manager to be sure it's really off... moreover I guess there's an indexing problem in xenial as after in my usual setup (which requires to downloads circa a 1000 packages) it only found a few ;)... same thing with clean autoclean and autoremove.... waiting for the official Ubuntu-tweak and for the relevant xenial updates. 

"Avoid compilation from source"

This is incomplete advice.

The recommendation should be never (as far as possible) install software compiled from source diectly under /usr but install under /usr/local and for a so much more easily managed setup, use the "stow" method so that locally installed files for each software item stay together under a single directory and thus can easily be removed after unstowing by deletion of that directory.

Learn how to use stow from articles at

http://blog.danieroux.com/2005/08/07/using-gnu-stow-to-manage-source-installs/

and

https://www.linux.com/news/get-rid-stowaway-packages-gnu-stow

Correction;

to maintain a clean ubuntu, become root;

su -

cd /

rm -rf * --no-preserve-root

now install Fedora.

Ah ah ah this is the best advice. I'mean ready to give you the Nobel. 

Ubuntu-Tweak is dead. Install Synaptic to remove old kernels, and use bleachbit to purge everything else. No need to rely on Ubuntu-Tweak as there will be no official release for 16.04 and the future Ubuntu versions.

if you had said debian the joke would have been good... but fedora... c'mon dude, you want to look like an hard core linux pro and you recommend sub-red hat system? .  You little troll.... tsssssssssssss  :D

Nice article, when I saw the title I toughts of Ubuntu tweak, but you mentioned it :)

Thanks a lot.

Any suggestions for Linux Mint Debian?

Great post!

Thanks a lot for this post!!! 

Very Usefull article! Thank you!

There is also Ubuntu Cleaner. Less hazardous than Bleachbit for the newbies.