How do you keep your OS clean?

[kingdomcome]

Sorry if the title is confusing, I wasn't sure how to word it.
Anyway, do you have a specific "junking old files I forgot I even had" routine? I've gotten way out of the habit of keeping my filesystems tidy & well organized... it's a mess

I was great at somehow managing to wipe out 5gb of random stuff I'd accumulated a few years ago, but these days I'm coddled by debian's apt package manager autoremove tool & frequently forget to check various folders for left-over old data I have no use for anymore.

Back when I used windows, this wasn't really a problem for me, because I couldn't perform windows updates without it bricking itself— so I'd just wipe & reinstall every 6 months before it could get to the point that I'm using up half my drive space on... insert a dozen question marks here. That's not really a solution, but hey it worked!

I'd love to know if anyone actually has a checklist they go through every X amount of months to keep things in order. (or if peace with computers is impossible)

[candycanearter07]

Not really. All my media folders are kinda a mess, but especially my Documents folder, hoo boy. Probably just try to keep your folders together and designate certain folders for certain things, tho.

[imnotjahan]

I just reinstall my operating system if things start to seem congested. All my important stuff is backed up, so I don't loose anything important. It's a lot easier though if you make a custom iso or autoinstall script for however you like your os configured, so you can just reinstall and go back to whatever it is you do.