BluOS controller app on Linux

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Rand K Barthel

• August 02, 2019 15:57

I'd just like to put in a plug for supporting the BluOS controller app on Linux. All of my home computers run Linux Mint 18.1, which is closely related to Ubuntu, and my work-at-home machine is running RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.6. I realize it's a niche market, but it's growing, and I bet it's pretty similar to MacOS under the covers.

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  Abe

  • March 26, 2026 18:46

  Watch out for the cache on Linux. This app uses a directory under ~/.config instead of ~/.cache (namely: ~/.config/BluOS Controller/Cache/Cache_Data/) and the content can be quite voluminous. Not necessarily in terms of size (mine was 76 MB when I discovered it) but the number of files is surprising: over 5000 for those 76 MB. 

  I found this cache when searching for the source of a high rate of disk writes while something is playing, but it also means that my backups have been including this useless data all along. 🙄️ 

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  Josh Ellithorpe

  • March 26, 2026 18:56

  Wow, thanks for the heads up! I did not notice that behavior!

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