What do you recommend an average home or office user (provided they also have root access to the machine they're using) do on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis or so to keep their system clean, fast, up-to-date, secure, slim, etc.?
I'm looking for things like
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
or purging of old kernels and so on.
If you want to do these stuff manually just like I do:
Always keep your sources up to date using:
sudo apt-get update
use sudo apt-get upgrade regularly to upgrade all packages to newer versions, get security updates and patches.
use:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
to get install new kernel, it might remove or install new packages if it was necessary.
time to time use:
sudo apt-get autoclean
to clear your apt cache, it removes old deb files which are not necessary anymore.
and run:
sudo apt-get autoremove
to remove old kernels or packages that are not necessary anymore like dependencies which are not being used anymore.
that's what I do.
If you use apt instead of apt-get then by running apt upgrade you get all packages updates also new kernel and you don't even have to run apt autoclean cause it's not going to cache deb files.
You should also have backup from your system's important paths:
/etc
/var
/home
are the places which I always keep a backup of them.
