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definitely agreed on against using swap as memory as much as you can especially since it can needlessly wear out your ssd (m.2 on most if not all on modern systems)
allocating swap is still necessary as it provides features such as:
On my journey to learning Arch Linux I've personally tried:
the last two doesn't guarantee 0 problems as user errors such as allocating too much system memory to VMs can cause issues for the host system, but it does tend to mitigate the majority of issues that prevent the perception of system stability in comparison to Windows or Macs
Resources:
ZRAM bby
after a quick preliminary search,
a couple of things I've found out:
this might not necessarily be adopted by the mainstream desktop users, due to the nature of zram compressing data in addition to disallowing hibernation
to me atm; zram seems great for server based systems rather than for desktop users' systems
one other method for zram mainstream adoption is to encourage an eccentric system that I'm currently using, which is to have the host system only contain minimal packages to run Virtual Machines:
sorry for the long comment!
stuff like this interests me the most so I've spent a lot of time in learning and tinkering around🤗
What? It’s not a jpeg file. It’s a lossless compression algorithm.
Speak for yourself, my compression algorithm works by discarding every third byte. I figure it's good enough for most use cases.
if so that's pretty dope!