Those that believe there is one.
Bit like area fifty something.
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I used to work in area 54
Not a very imaginative name.
Myths are about not understanding how something works so you invent an explanation using your imagination.
Its a code.
Sorry Neville with the confusion hoped thd link helped but obviously not.
No idea why that phrase using urban as a word, it is just a local story I guess. In everyone says it so it must be true but no actual proof.
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Iâve used Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu instances and it works well but havenât tried it on my Debian 12 daily driver where I use Stacer
sudo apt install stacer
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Oh, welll, debates were were going on about that.
As for a cleaner tool: I think a power user does not need it, I can decide what to delete. A less experienced user wonât even notice the mess collected in ~.config and ~/.cache for example. They are harmless anyway, just take some space unnecessarily. They stam from installing an app, trying, then removing.
apt purge removes system-wide config files for that particular package from /etc, but does not change anyhing in users home directories. If an app creates its user-level config in ~/.config (for example VLC in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc, when the user decides not wanting VLC, and purging, that file in the home dir stays forever.
So yes, a cleaner may have some point, or doing some housekeeping time to time manually.
As for defrag: with my huge videofiles I regularly fill up my disk space over 80%. As long as sequential read from a device is faster than random read, file fragmentation will have an impact.
So yes, defrag on Linux may be needed (e4defrag does it for me).
The urban legend tells it is not needed for Linux, and it has some truth in it:
- Ext4 is much less prone to fragmentation than NTFS.
- When fragmented, ext4 gets lower impact on performance than NTFS.
- An average user with normally sized files (documents, images, etc) not filling up the drive over 75% will never experience performance drop becaue of fragmentation.
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Maybe people living not in a town or city are usually smarter, and donât believe everything they hear, and donât spread it without reason 
Hence, rural myth doesnât exist at all 
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Especially now with faster speed ssd⌠I was setting up a new install of mint on a ssd former windows 10 user last week. Normally I suggest 4 hours for me to copy documents and images off, install mint then copy user files back on. But it was all done in an hour. Slowest part was downloading the mint updates but after that amazed just how quick it ran.
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Was the ssd a M.2?
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I think in this context, âurbanâ may mean âmodernâ
and I think âmythâ just means âstoryâ
so quite different from what we call mythology.
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Yes does that make a difference
Was just curious as to the kind of ssd you used.
I dont use one in my system, it was for a client. They had a tower which died with one in and had a laptop with another. I simply removed the ssd from the tower, installed lmde on the laptop to replace windows as they were sick of it and then used the external ssd in a box to copy everything back.
I had told them the windows had a problem with virus issues on the laptop and rather than sorting it the best bet was linux
They are now happy with the results.
I have a dead tower which i cannot repair heading to the skip once i take the bits out of use, mainly the memory rest is scrap
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Sometimes it screws up itself. Sometimes an antivirus solution screws it up.
Remember the laptop with bitlocker I had the adventure with?
It was brought to its knees by bitdefender. There was some upgrade of bitdefender, after which the bitlocked windows never ever started again.
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@kovacslt - preliminary trials showed something called âIsolated webâŚâ taking up large CPU share frequently. So I uninstalled Firefox and started using another browser Brave from flatpak⌠The browser loading and operating speed seems much better. Need more time to conclude.
The slowness after login upto display of desktop is yet to be figured out.
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