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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system

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    9 months ago

    Removed by mod

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      10 months ago

      If you’re talking about the Temp folder, the equivalent to that in Linux is /tmp/ which behaves exactly like you described. ~/.cache is more like a general directory for any cache that programs might wanna keep around for longer than a single boot. I’m not aware of special directories like this on Windows. From what I’ve seen, most programs on Windows tend to keep it in AppData alongside non-cache files