Revolutionize Your Linux Game with Stacer: The Ultimate Tool for Monitoring, Cleaning, and Optimizing Your System!
If you’re an avid Linux user, then you know that managing your system can be a bit of a challenge. From monitoring processes to cleaning up temporary files, there are a lot of tasks that need to be performed regularly to keep your system running smoothly.
Fortunately, Stacer is here to help you out. This versatile tool can help you monitor, clean, and optimize your Linux system to keep it running at peak performance. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at what Stacer can do for you, and how you can start using it today.
What is Stacer?
Stacer is a free and open-source tool designed to help you manage your Linux system more effectively. With Stacer, you can monitor system resources, manage startup applications, clean up temporary files, and more. It’s a one-stop-shop for all your system management needs.
Stacer is available for all major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, and Arch. You can download it from the official website, or install it from your distribution’s repository.
How does Stacer work?
Stacer is comprised of several modules, each of which serves a specific purpose. Here’s a quick overview of what each module can do:
System Cleaner: This module helps you clean up temporary files, log files, and other unnecessary data that can accumulate on your system over time. It’s a great way to free up disk space and keep your system running smoothly.
Startup Apps: This module lists all the applications that start automatically when you boot up your system. You can disable any unnecessary apps to speed up your boot time and reduce system resource usage.
Services: This module lets you manage the services that run on your system. You can start, stop, enable, or disable any service as needed.
Processes: This module lists all the processes running on your system, along with their resource usage. You can sort processes by name, memory usage, CPU usage, or other criteria to get a better understanding of how your system is performing.
File Systems: This module lets you manage your file systems, including mounting and unmounting disks, formatting partitions, and more.
System Info: This module provides you with detailed information about your system, including hardware specifications, kernel version, and more.
Why should you use Stacer?
There are plenty of reasons to use Stacer for managing your Linux system. Here are just a few:
It’s easy to use: Stacer has a simple, user-friendly interface that makes it easy to perform common system management tasks.
It’s versatile: With its many modules, Stacer can help you manage all aspects of your Linux system, from cleaning up temporary files to monitoring system resources.
It’s efficient: Stacer is designed to be fast and efficient, so it won’t slow down your system or use up too much system resources.
It’s open source: Stacer is an open-source tool, which means it’s free to use and modify. You can even contribute to the Stacer project by submitting bug reports or code patches.
How to use Stacer?
Using Stacer is easy. Once you’ve downloaded and installed it on your Linux system, simply open it up and start exploring its various modules. You can use the System Cleaner to clean up your system, the Startup Apps module to manage your startup applications, and so on.
In addition to its modules, Stacer also has some handy tools, such as a system-wide search function and a built-in terminal emulator. These tools can help you find and manage system files, or quickly run commands without opening a separate terminal.
Conclusion
Stacer is a powerful tool for managing your Linux system more effectively. With its many modules and tools, you can monitor system resources, manage startup applications, clean up temporary files, and more. If you’re looking for an easy-to-use, efficient, and versatile system management tool for Linux, Stacer is definitely worth checking out. So go ahead, give it a try, and revolutionize your Linux game today!
Are you looking for ways to optimize your Linux system and get it to run faster? There are plenty of ways and tools for you to do so, and Stacer includes everything you need to monitor, clean, and optimize your Linux installation. Let’s see how it works.
Installation
On Ubuntu, you can install Stacer with:
Fans of Arch will have to turn to AUR for its installation.
On Fedora and Red Hat, you can download Stacer’s RPM file from its releases page and then install it with:
It’s probably easier, though, to use DNF:
After its installation completes, you can find it among the rest of your installed software and launch it or use the stacer command in a terminal.
Real-Time Info
Stacer’s interface offers about a dozen different pages, accessible through an icon list on the left of its window. The first page, which greets you when you first run Stacer, presents real-time information about your CPU, memory, disk, and bandwidth use. Those are accompanied by static information about your system, like your hostname and kernel, on the bottom-left corner.
Are your CPU, memory, and disk utilization too high? You probably need to visit the rest of Stacer’s pages for some maintenance.
Startup Apps and Services
The second page, with a rocket icon, allows you to manage startup applications after you log in to your desktop. You can also add new applications that you would like to start automatically using the blue “Add Startup App” button on the bottom right of the window.
In our case, this window didn’t display anything because we didn’t have any applications starting automatically.
The Services page, accessible through the fifth icon with the two gears, is similar in that it allows you to enable or disable stuff that starts automatically. Instead of applications, though, as its title states, it’s dealing with services.
You can use the two pull-down menus on the top to have the list display only active or inactive services and use the two switches on the right of each service to enable or disable it. The first switch controls whether the service will start automatically. The second allows you to start and stop services at will.
Please make sure that you know what each service you are disabling does. Some are crucial for the OS itself being operational.
Disk Cleanup
With Stacer, it’s easy to recover some of your precious storage taken up by useless files. Visit Stacer’s third page, System Cleaner, with the brush icon.
Enable what you would like the program to clean by clicking on the checkmark icon underneath each category. Alternatively, to enable all cleanup types, click on “Select All” on the bottom of this page.
Click on the button with the magnifying glass to have Stacer locate those useless files. After a while, Stacer will present a report. Check the results and select what you want to delete by clicking on the checkmark to the left of each entry’.
Like before, there is also a “Select All” option on the bottom left of the list to mark everything for cleanup in one click. We suggest you go through the list, though, as it could contain a log or package you may want to keep. To delete everything in Stacer’s System Cleaner list, click on the big blue circular button with the brush on the bottom of the window.
Manage Packages and Repositories
The seventh icon will bring you to Stacer’s uninstaller page, where you can remove installed packages. If you are also using snap packages, Stacer will list them in a secondary list, accessible from a button on the top left. It also offers a search function on the top right to help you locate specific packages.
To uninstall a package, select it by clicking on the checkmark on its left, then click on the “Uninstall Selected” button at the bottom center of the window. Note that you can also select multiple packages.
Skip two icons, and if you click on the tenth icon, with a rough approximation of a filing cabinet, you will meet Stacer’s APT Repository Manager. You can control all your software sources from this spot.
Like in the previous pages, you can enable or disable a repository by clicking on the switch icon on the right of its entry. Two buttons on the bottom left allow you to edit or delete the selected entry. An “Add Repository” button on the bottom right allows you to extend it with more repositories.
When you try to quit Stacer, it will ask if you want to minimize it in the system tray. Since it eats more resources than top in a terminal or a desktop panel widget for monitoring your system, we find no reason to keep Stacer running in the background.
Stacer offers you control of even more aspects of your system. Still, we consider those to be more important for cleaning up and maintaining your distribution in good working condition.
If you are using Ubuntu, here are a few ways to maintain a clean, lean Ubuntu machine.
OK’s real life started at around 10, when he got his first computer - a Commodore 128. Since then, he’s been melting keycaps by typing 24/7, trying to spread The Word Of Tech to anyone interested enough to listen. Or, rather, read.
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