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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
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I miss WinDirStat for seeing where all my hard drive space went. You can spot enormous files and folders full of ISOs at a glance.
For bit-for-bit duplicates (thanks, modern DownThemAll), use fdupes.
Qdirstat? https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat Filelight is also really good https://apps.kde.org/filelight/
Qdirstat will not size its damn rectangles properly in Mint. Massive empty voids for no discernible reason.
Filelight is just objectively worse than a grid-based overview.
If WizTree is available on Linux then I highly recommend it over all other alternatives.
It reads straight from the table and is done within a couple of seconds.
Filelight on linux
Squirreldisk on windows
Both libre