I am scared to use the application at all because I literally have no
idea what it will do.

The list of applications selected by ticks suggests that when I click
the "perform selected tasks" button the applications selected will be
removed. They are SELECTED. "Perform selected tasks" suggests that
something will be done to the selected stuff - i.e. it will be removed.

But when I go to deselect an application from the list (because some of
the stuff on it is stuff I installed manually that I want to keep), I am
asked to authenticate with the message "Removing Unused Packages
Requires Authentication". This immediately confuses me. Indeed the
wording suggests that DESELECTING an application will remove it.

At this point I honestly have no idea (I'm not bullshitting you here - I
literally cannot decide) whether it is the selected or delected
applications that will be removed were I to click on the "Perform
Selected Tasks" button. I reckon I have about a 50% chance of having it
do the exact opposite of what I intend. And I'm not a computer
illiterate.

Not liking those odds I decided the safest thing to do was close the
Janitor and not use it. And seek help of course from ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1775705

The problem is very real. From my point of view this application is
completely ambiguous.

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  What does "Do selected tasks" mean?

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