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>~/.config) won't magically get cleaned up. >I'd love to be wrong here,

Isn't this what apt purge appname does ? or is something missing

Form the apt-get docs:

purge - purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted too).

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That would only purge config files that came with the package (which would live in /etc/). Config files in the homedir of a user are not managed by apt.

Thanks, I was wrong, not sure why I believed that it worked. so in the end Linux needs a CCleaner tool like Windows, it should also contain a browser cache cleaner, I sometimes find a few Gb of space in Chromium localstorage/cache and have to hunt them down and delete manually.

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