This is always an eternal topic of debate. Installers usually offer to create a swap partition.
Iām using a SSD with BTRFS and Iām torn between using a swap parition, a swapfile and zramd. Which would you suggest for gaming and day-to-day use?
That post was from 6 months ago, systemd-swap was deprecated during that time. 
Is it a laptop you need to hibernate and how much ram do you have?
Itās a desktop, I donāt need hibernate (never seen the point of it really) and I have 8Gb RAM.
I would first try zram for that use case and amount of ram.
The good news about swap, is that you can always try it one way and change it later.
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I have previously used zramd which worked ootb, is this the best way to do it?
I am using zram-generator but I donāt know that it makes a huge difference which method you choose. I have not used zramd so I canāt compare them for you. I would use whatever you are comfortable with.
how do you get zram-generator to work? Could you give the [very] basic steps?
Everything is explained here in great detail. It does require a bit of patience to read through it all, but itās explained in fairly simple terms:
Thanks but I think Iāll stay with zramd, I donāt want to manually configure too much incase it breaks. I have a git repo with a script which sets everything up as I like it incase I ever have to do a reinstall. As Iāve found out over the years, one typo can cause so many headaches.
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