In Defense of Swap - The ever present debate

[thefrog]

@eznix

Please read the article before chiming in with less-informed pronouncements.

Where is you sense of Adventure
They started a thread for that actually JICYDK

Zram vs swap partition vs swapfile

To end the discussion in the “show your desktop” about swap partition yes/no. I want to hear your thoughts about swap and why you use it or not. Personally i have a system up and running with btrfs and 32GB of ram WITHOUT swap enabled. System runs very smooth compared to my Pop! OS install on the same notebook. I do notice improvements with Endeavour OS (like moving a window). So i really wonder what benefits a swap partition would have. Pop OS uses zram + a swap partition. From my reading onl…