Applications

The Applications section is an inventory of what is installed on the machine, with the space each program occupies.

Platform	Where it looks
macOS	.app bundles in /Applications and ~/Applications
Linux	.desktop entries and the packages of the common prefixes
Windows	The entries of the uninstall registry

The header counts the applications and adds up their size. Every row shows the name, the version, the size and where the program lives.

Removing one

Remove opens a dialog with the path and the size of the application and offers the two ways out:

• Move to Trash — recoverable. The space comes back when the Trash is emptied.
• Delete permanently — a second confirmation, because it cannot be undone.

An application that belongs to the operating system carries a system badge and its button is disabled — the reason is in the tooltip.

Caution

Removing an application takes away the program. Its own data — settings, documents, saved games — is left where it is. Uninstalling an application is not a way to free space: the space it occupies comes back with the program gone, but the data it wrote stays.

See Applications for the command-line equivalent.