{"id":14390,"date":"2025-12-03T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:08:53","slug":"5-tasks-linux-users-dont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/12\/03\/5-tasks-linux-users-dont-do\/","title":{"rendered":"5 tasks Linux users don&#8217;t do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/windows-maintenance-tasks-finally-stopped-doing\/?utm_source=XDA-NL&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=XDA-202512030730&amp;user=cGFvbG8ucmVkYWVsbGlAbGliZXJvLml0&amp;lctg=d7fec414ea07565de0b2e04d9afaf3765a0e4f76762461a0da6bf9cd486b3f8a\">5 Windows maintenance tasks I finally stopped doing<\/a> and I can&#8217;t stop smiling: Linux users never had to do those tasks; here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Using registry cleaners<\/em> unneeded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s><em>Running Disk Cleanup<\/em> <\/s> well, actually sometimes we do&#8230; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Defragmenting (or optimizing) drives<\/em>: Linux never fragmented the disk since, well&#8230; forever<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Using third-party driver updaters<\/em> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Uninstalling programs one by one<\/em> &#8230;. <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">apt purge program1 program2 program3 ... programN<\/code> or just use some GUI; it&#8217;s the same<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I just read 5 Windows maintenance tasks I finally stopped doing and I can&#8217;t stop smiling: Linux users never had to do those tasks; here they are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/12\/03\/5-tasks-linux-users-dont-do\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/windows-11-maintenance-tasks.webp?fit=1024%2C702&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-3K6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10706,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/08\/13\/dutree-analyze-file-system-disk-usage-in-linux\/","url_meta":{"origin":14390,"position":0},"title":"dutree &#8211; Analyze File System Disk Usage in Linux","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-08-13","format":"status","excerpt":"I used to run du -hsc \/ |sort -hr | less but it seems that people needs this dutree is a free, open-source command-line tool for analyzing disk usage, written in Rust programming language that reports disk usage in a tree-like format. 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