Baobab is recommended for users who are on the GNOME desktop environment and need a straightforward way to understand and manage disk space. It is suitable for both casual users who want an easy way to reclaim disk space and more advanced users who require detailed analysis of disk usage patterns.
Filelight is recommended for users who prefer graphical representation of disk usage and are comfortable in the KDE desktop environment. It is also suitable for users who need to manage disk space across different file systems and those who want an easy way to identify space-consuming files and directories.
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Based on our record, Filelight seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 11 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Many good alternative listed already. But I have quite liked FileLight which is cross platform https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ Likely not as fast as WizTree though. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
You’ll need to boot into Desktop Mode to drill deeper regarding what’s installed on your SD card or internal storage. In Desktop Mode, you can navigate around using the built-in file explorer, Dolphin. You can also download and install Filelight from the Discover app store, if you want more of a visual aid while sifting through your files and directories. Source: almost 2 years ago
I would open the Discover store in Desktop mode and download Filelight, which will help visualize the used space on your drive. It might help illuminate what’s taking up so much space, pun intended. Source: about 2 years ago
Use KDE Filelight, it's actively maintained unlike SpaceMonger. Source: about 2 years ago
Run this before assuming that it's some random program https://apps.kde.org/filelight/. Source: over 2 years ago
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WinDirStat - WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.
WizTree - WizTree quickly finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive. It scans the MFT (Master File Table) instead of crawling the entire disk which makes it very fast.
TreeSize - TreeSize tells you where precious disk space has gone to.
Gdu - Gdu is one of the smart open-source disk analyzers specially designed for Linux that provides you complete information related to the disk space.