I’ve run Arch without swap for many years without issues. The key of course is that you need enough RAM for what you are trying to do with your computer.
There’s no reason why a 32GB RAM + 0GB swap system should have more problems than a 16GB RAM + 16GB swap system with the same workload. If anything, the former is going to run much better.
I run a lot of VMs; I typically run 2 at the same time in addition to running other programs in the background, my usecase is more eccentric than most users in the Linux space which is already pretty niche
What is finicky about a swap file?
It’s just this:
mkswap -U clear --size 4G --file /swapfile swapon /swapfile
Done
I’m using BTRFS with LUKS-based Full Disk Encryption, the last time I used swapfiles with BTRFS with FDE it was in 2019 and it was painful to say the least, I rememeber spending several weeks scouring Stack and the Arch forums in order to get it to work properly.
If anything it’s way easier to create a file in your filesystem than having to (re-)partition your drive to have a swap partition. Much more flexible too if you want to change your swap configuration in the future.
swapfiles are great in that you can resize them at will, however after trying all 3 options I found myself questioning when would I even want to resize swap for a single system, so at a certain point I felt that swapfiles were more of a gimmick cause again you don’t really want to depend on swap if can.
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
Hibernating to swap on zram is not supported, even when zram is configured with a backing device on permanent storage. logind will protect against trying to hibernate to a swap space on zram.
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🤗
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
this seems like a great idea as it provides proof in writing just in case the stakeholder complains later on about the thing you implemented at their request
if you wouldn’t mind
Please mark as NSFW🤗
ditto😆
Intel really set themselves up for a perfect memefest😂
I’ve learned about this the hard way in that I’ve discovered elephants in the room that I can’t share with anyone
it’s kinda fucked up
yup, you’re more likely to have a better time with Linux if you have an AMD gpu
currrently if you get an NVIDIA gpu, you’d miss out on features like explicit sync and triple buffering, NVIDIA’s getting better about supporting Linux via open source drivers, although with their current focus/obsession on AI (and decrease on the gaming market based on Jenson’s recent behavior towards gamers at Computex 2024) it’s hard to tell what efftect that might have for driver support
Triple edit: omg thank you all for the (totally not useless) awards!!
this looks fucking wild and I kinda love it?
if I owned this I’d change the color scheme but the build overall looks pretty swag🤙
Mental Outlaw’s vid is probably a good place to start, afterwards I’d recommend reading Libreboot’s documentation
Edit:
how can I check the ROM after I run the command
./build roms t440plibremrc_12mb
ah rip, I didn’t catch this part sorry
unfortunately I’m not the right person to answer that, hopefully someone else might know
guess we replaced Google
Noice🤌
congrats to jellygiggler69😂
great name to attach an official award to lamo
NixOS on my laptop and Arch on desktop
desktop’s having occasional graphical issues but that’s primarily due to my gtx1080 showing it’s age
Laptop’s doing good although I’ll never buy an Asus laptop ever again (battery charging issues)
thank you!
I’ve added hyfetch to the post🤗
sorry I didn’t do it earlier, had to deal with family stuff!
it’s why I made the TLDW summary as I wanted to save everyone’s time🤗
maybe the scheduler cron in combination with git might work for you?
for us admins we generally tend to let the community mods handle their community’s reports
and for communities that are either:
then we’ll take over for moderating those communities till we find people who want to try becoming moderators🤗
if so that’s pretty dope!