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What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?
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I really like the disk usage analyzer in gnome. The ui/visualization is really intuitive and useful, and I often wish for something similar on windows.
I use SpaceSniffer for Windows but it uses the rectangular view not the pie. I do like the pie.
If you're on Windows I highly suggest you try Wiztree it's really fast. It scans an 8 TB HDD in like <10 seconds.
I'm not sure what the gnome disk usage analyzer looks like but WizTree on windows is excellent at showing you where stuff is and how much space it takes up
Is that like WinDirStat?
Exactly like it but waaaay faster. Something about the protocol it uses speeds up things quite a bit
It scans the NTFS file table instead of the individual files, which is much faster. It does require administrative permissions though.
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Here's a screenshot of the Gnome one, which is actually called baobob:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baobab_screenshot.png
Wiztree looks interesting, I'll see if I can install it, although my work machine is pretty locked down, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's off limits.