It’s a purely software thing. I don’t understand what you mean by “solid system”.
Could you walk me through that calculation, please? It’s quite late here and my brain is just not working properly. 
VMs take RAM, that’s a whole different topic. Hack was probably the wrong word I accept that. 8GB on here and 4GB on my laptop although when funds will allow the lappy will go 8GB also. They both run fine and thanks for the chat and info! 
Assuming the gentoo calculation for compression, it means that 8GB of zram takes up 2.667 of physical RAM. So it is 8 + (8-8/3).
It is possible I did it wrong. I didn’t put a lot of thought into it 
Hmm interesting. Thanks for the considered reply.
Works fine in my openSuse setup!
Reducing swappiness from the default value of 60 to 10 causes the kernel to reduce swapping and prefer RAM instead (faster). Anyway I stopped creating the swap file since I bought my first 16 GB notebook (now I have 32 GB) and never noticed any problem 
Appologies to all for any gripes or complaints. I would ask the mods to delete the entire post but there are some who ask questions pertatining to their issues which seemed to help them. So I would rather just leave it, LOL LET ME BE THE JERK OF THE WHOLE THREAD! LOL! If it helps someone then good. 
My entire issue took a few days for me to resolve. HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ENDEAVOUR OS AT ALL, and I want to emphasize that. And it WAS NOT MY FAULT. Well, there is some bad information on the internet, I knew that, but it was a learning experience and I am better for it now.
After doing a bit of research, there was this bug in Chrome and Microsoft Edge with certain linux kernels with the new builds of those Browsers at the time. It’s since been fixed at least as far as I can tell.
I decided to give Linux another go. I tried several variations, and they were all good to a point for my needs.
Learned some more about Linux, haven’t used it in a few years and honestly not as my main OS ever.
Many reasons I wanted to switch to linux, number one was I am sick and tired of the Microsoft Spy crap. I for one do not like turning on my computer and having a corporation like Microsoft deciding what is BEST FOR ME when it comes to how I want “MY PC” to work.
So, I figured out my issues with my Tascam US122L, I did it all by myself on this go round, my instructions were somewhat flawed, needed to add myself to a group and all that, figured that that.
Long story short, I am now using Endeavour OS 100% all the time with no more Windows and can do everything I could before.
I play guitar and record it from time to time, kinda just getting back into that, and mainly used Cakewalk Sonar Platinum on Windows.
After spending a little more time all I can say is this Endeavour OS IS THE BEST! PERIOD!
I would like to make some suggestions for anyone who reads this that might help them.
I am using the “Offline XFCE4 Install”, or I am using XFCE4 that is for the desktop environment.
#1 : Best “Image” backup software migrating from Windows to Linux for me that I have found is “Foxclone”, it has helped me tremendously. You have to burn it to a USB, I use Balena Etcher for that to use it, probably can do so with a CD or DVD but I don’t use those. It will backup your entire OS and let you recover it. : But keep in mind, you need to backup an EXT4 drive to a drive formatted in that same EXT4 format.
You can always use Gparted and resize a NTFS drive to clear up space and create a new partition in the file format of your needs to use it as a backup PARTITION also to save your backups that way, that’s what I did. Works perfect for me, but don’t create a partition on your primary drive **BECAUSE IT MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS AND CAUSE A PRIMARY DRIVE TO NOT BOOT YOUR OPERASTING SYSTEM!", I DID THIS ON A DRIVE I DO NOT BOOT FROM WHICH WAS SIMPLY A BACKUP DRIVE SO BE WARNED!!!.
Here’s the link to that software, it’s an ISO just use Balena Etcher or similar :
#2 : Email for me is a big deal. I can’t remember if it is installed by default on the offline XFCE4 installer or not, I think I had to install it from the AUR repositories which I turned on after in installing Pamac.
Just search for how to install Pamac on arch, which version choice is yours and it is really is a person preference.
I had issues with the pamac-all but after a fresh install using just plain pamac-git or pamac-git-aur I think it was/can’t remember and turning on the aur repositories in preferences I installed Snap for a couple programs and Flatpak “seperately” from terminal which you can go to Snap and Flatpak for instruction on how to do that for arch, it seems to work perfectly.
Back to email, I tried to like Thunderbird, I really did, but I just don’t like it, it’s slow, too slow for me. Also tried basically all of the email clients available. Eventually I settled for “Evolution”. Which worked good for my needs.
BUT: I didn’t like the way it looked, just seemed strange coming from Windows 10. That being said, if you have an XFCE4 theme installed you can launch evolution from terminal like this to have it match a seperate them of your choice :
You can create a shortcut/launcher and add something like without quotes "GTK_THEME= " example GTK_THEME=Arc name of the theme you want it do display as.
Okay, probably old news to most, but new to me.
#3 : I got my desktop look almost exactly how I wanted it, but I still wasn’t happy with the look of the Evolution email client, it just did not look right to me. I like the darker colors because it’s easy on my eyes. But on Evolution I wanted it to be brighter and not dark.
So I installed the “xfce4-theme-switcher” from the aur and pamac and the Windows “xts-windows10-theme”.
After doing so the first thing I did was backup my current settings using the “Theme Switcher Software” for xfce4, there is a “Backup your current settings option, looks like a folder icon” and I did that before doing anything else, after that selected and applied the Windows 10 theme, and WOW!
Not only did my Thunar look like Windows File Explorer but Evolution Email also looks like the Outlook Email software which I am used to looking at. There are also themes availble for theme switcher for MacOS and WindowsXP and a couple others.
I mention this for those wondering about such things.
#4 : I like the Mail Watcher plugin for XFCE4, I don’t think it is installed by default, but it is a good plugin for keeping up with your email. If you install it I would recommend in the preference settings adding in the selction “RUN ON NEW MESSAGES”
notify-send -i xfce-newmail “New email” “You’ve got a new email”
You can change the part “You’ve got a new email” in between to whatever you want it to notify you when you get a new email from that plugin. Make sure you that libnotify-bin is installed for that to work.
Anyway, I hope my reply here helps someone. I couldn’t be happier after figuring out what I needed to do, and I couldn’t seem to get it done with any other OS. Endeavour OS in my opinion IS THE BEST! PERIOD!
On a side note, if you install the Reaper Daw in Endeavour and are coming from Sonar or the Cakewalk Digital Audio Workstations/DAW , check out the theme called “Echolot” it looks just like Sonar Platinum and works great.
You can download it here.
https://stash.reaper.fm/theme/2737/Echolot_1.2.ReaperThemeZip
Hope this helps someone. I’m not good at explaining things, I tried, if anything I said is incorrect or someone needs help just let me know I’ll be more than happy to explain what I did, although I am absolutely no expert that this and there are those on these forums who know far more than I ever will no doubt. Like I said I just thought this might help someone.