KUDU system maintenance Cleaner?

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Hi guys

Any of you having an opinion about the KUDU Cleaner ?
Pro ? Con ?
Link: https://usekudu.com/

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@Watford oh boy! This has over 1 million downloads and I’m hearing about this and downloading it for the first time. lol Thanks for sharing. Will add feedback later.

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Gave it a try. The .deb wouldn’t install on Kali/Debian trixie: it depends on libfuse2 or libfuse2t64 and neither is in the repos anymore. So ran the AppImage with --appimage-extract-and-run instead, which worked.

Once running, it’s clearly a Windows app with a Linux build bolted on. Services Manager literally says “disable unnecessary Windows services”.

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Malware scanner reported “system clean” after scanning 34 files in 3.9 seconds. lol Network Cleanup is DNS cache, ARP cache and Wi-Fi profiles, which are one-liners in resolvectl and nmcli.

Wants root for some features, I’m not handing root to a GUI cleaner for DYI tasks. Performance monitor is fine but htop and btop already cover it.

Might be useful for Windows. Uninstalled here.

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Yes, I have something to say about ‘cleaners’ and ‘optimizers’. That may sound as retrograde speech, however. In brief, I do not trust them. There are reasons for saying so:

  • ‘cleaners’ and ‘optimizers’ are popular carriers of infostealers and bots by design;
  • in the best case they are nearly useless and in the worst case they may seriously cripple one’s system;
  • a person who can not clean and/or optimize his system manually should not rely on tools of unknown origin and purpose for they are completely out of his control.

:man_shrugging:

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I tend to stay away from cleaner apps for the most part.

In the past I remember Ubuntu had an app called Ubuntu Tweak in the repos and it had a nifty lightweight cleaner that did a great job doing the basics but even then one of the cleaning options was removing old kernels and the issue with this is that it would remove all but the newest kernel so checking that box before cleaning could lead to serious problems if there was an issue with the latest kernel. It’s actually been forked as ubuntu-cleaner and is available on Github.

Bleachbit while a very powerful cleaning (and trustworthy tool imo) has so many cleaning options that if you don’t know what you’re doing and click clean,much like Eugene said you could seriously cripple your system.

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