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How do I uninstall my browser along with all its data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I recently installed chromium, created a new user and logged into a website. After my work was done, I removed chromium with "sudo dnf remove chromium".

A few days later I installed chromium again through dnf. My user account was still there and I was logged into the same site.

Is there a way to avoid this and uninstall an app along with all its user data?

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, if the dev provided an uninstaller, if that uninstaller really does clean everywhere, and if control panel finds and executes that uninstaller – which in my experience it very often doesn't.

To me the Flatpak way is better. But yeah, maybe system packages not doing it can be annoying sometimes. I just take issue with you saying it's not an issue on Windows when it absolutely is, and is IMO worse there.