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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

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Could have fooled me, because it’s certainly the default for things like brew, flatpak, mpm, and pip. Looks like npm and maven use it on certain Debian based distros as well. I’m betting more of the immutable distros use that directory as well vs something in /var/cache.

    • bizdelnick
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      1 year ago

      Ah, sorry, I thought about system package managers like apt, dnf, zypper etc.