No Arch? Strange…
No Arch? Strange…
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In the last I had very little success rate of those uninstall tools to actually do their job in full. A lot of time they delete some data but almost always they leave some trash behind.
And in the first place, I stopped trusting those external uninstall binaries, they could be designed to remove not only app data but remove your personal data, steal data from your PC or infect it (even if just to investigate why you are uninstalling).
One of the reason is that apps can place their files in any place they want so the app manager is not aware of those locations.
Even if it would know then the user still would need a way to remove the app without deleting data, imagine installing Developer IDE or chat app and uninstall process would remove your chats or projects. Imagine app dev accidentally set the “directory that store app data” to /home, it would be bad.
I not once uninstalled app to install different (for example older) version due to bugs in new one.
Having the logic allowing to optionally delete data would introduce additional complexity so most old package managers never introduced that feature.
But I agree that we should slowly introduce a way to to that. Some app managers that manage flatpaks now allow to delete user data after uninstalling app, this now could be done universally because apps installed using flatpak store their data in their own separated/dedicated directory that flatpak engine know about so (unless you give permissions to access other location) thw manager know where the app store data so can offer easy way to remove it.
They only need to serve ads related to the conent. Because that is most likely something im interested in as I’m visiting the page for that. They don’t need any permissions/cookies for that.
Old good factorio headless Penguin, it’s like that for so long…
Hello fellow Factorio players :)
There is a change for a cross OS malware but it’s probably still quite small.
I would just remove them, and then if they dont re-appear after checking game file consistency then its’s mostly likely not a false positive.
But if you know that last playerd is most likely before you installed current OS then it should be clean. I would check user level autostart and cronjob (so mostly stuff in $HOME/.config) places if something didnt get added, go ahead with life.
Unless you are doing banking and other critical stuff on this machine then I would be thinking of hardedning the OS in some way and/or reinstalling.
Linux is slow at killing apps when you run out of memory because it was designed to also run on low spec hardware even if very slowly (making the ui totally unrensposnive) due to swapping.
This comic is about the
kill
command, how Linux kernel is handling force stopping apps vs (old?) Windows when if App frozed it was hard to close it. Now with modern apps and hardware you very rarely see that as most apps are designed to have asynchronous logic that is correctly handled, but it’s still more or less relevant.