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Naa, it’s about the network affect. Sweeney said there would be no LInux EGL until there is enough demand. Even if the Linux EGL sucks, it’s still Engineering dollars being spent by Epic. Engineering dollars that would never have been spent on Linux unless the there was a requisite level of demand. Sweeney sees the writing on the wall. I’m sure there will be a lot of new to Linux gamers that come for the Linux EGL and eventually switch to Heroic.

30 years of vendor lock’n will do that.

I looked at the article, same as the reddit thread, probably written by the same person. ZSWAP is just not necessary. ZRAM works and doesn’t require disk space w/ 3:1 compression. If I was running out of swap, then yes, I would take a look at ZSWAP to improve my swap situation. It’s just not a thing with ZRAM, not for many years.

I.E. for my use cases, ZSWAP is irrelevant.

You get more ram for very little slow down, that also, would rarely be the bottleneck. For the servers, ram is a constraint, and it’s all just selfhosting. I have a Raspberry Pi that I selfhost with, as well as a couple 10 dollar compute instances in the cloud. More ram is much better than the tiny slow down that might occur during compression or decompression. All my services are all still very snappy, even the mailserver. For my work, I bring up large docker sandboxes of services that I need running to test entire systems. In the past, I would just allocate 32GB to a swapfile. ZRam is way faster.

Because I want to encourage more swapping, not less.

I think things are going to change. Apple is talking about buying ram from Chinese ram companies. If that happens, a lot of other companies will do the same and that should reduce pressure on ram quite a bit. I’m sure those long term contracts the AI companies have for expensive ass ram will get canceled quick.

There is a lengthy thread on Reddit about the technical differences. Apparently Zswap will take advantage of the kernel eviction strategy for swap space. Apparently Zram doesn’t have that. To me that never made sense because, you create a Zram block device and then set that as your storage for swap space. Why would the kernel care, or know, that the swap space is backed by a Zram block device.

I do use Zram for my cloud self hosting machines and my dev machine. On the cloud devices they have 1 or 2 GB of ram and on my dev machine I have 32GB of ram. And in both cases it definitely seems like there is swap eviction. I also set the vm.swappiness to 180. Prior to Zram I would set my machines’ swappiness to 10. Swapping is highly encouraged on my machine.

Good to hear from you. I started with Slackware as well, skipped Slackware 5.0 and 6.0 (hehe) and went straight to Slackware 7.0. I eventually jumped to Ubuntu 7.0. Stayed with Ubuntu until recently I’ve switched to PopOS with CosmicDE. Worth a test drive at least, but the DE is not quite finished. Although, what is finished is very stable. I switched from Ubuntu because I’m tired of Gnome wasting years on bike shedding. I didn’t mind Canonical’s Embrace and Extend too much, mostly because I always knew I would be able to slide over to another distro with little fuss. When CosmicDE came out, that was my sign.

Just do live security updates.

This is the way. I always recommend people to get their feet wet with the live boot. I’ve been using Linux for almost 3 decades. Live boot is the easiest way to find out what will work for you. I’m not a Mint user, but it’s great for the people who like it; best part about FOSS.

Pretty sure, it’s a Gnome Shell extension for active workspaces.

This is correct.

Same. I still feel like I should be parking the heads on my 10mb hard drive. Honestly at this point, I’m too embarased to ask if there is a proper way to send my servers for a reboot, and I cross my fingers I can log back in.

Because they took time to make something from scratch with ingredients. i.e. Cooking. linux ricing started with only Window Managers and occasionally you get someone that modifies a DE. These people start from scratch to build their perfect environment. They aren’t doing after market modifications. They literally pick the components they want and put it all together, write all the configs. Hence, Cooking.

Linux Ricing

A cooking term dude. Pull your head out of your ass.

Brave on GrapheneOS works great. Worth a download.

Agreed. Worth it, when you need it. I get the sentiments of your post though; we’re not trying to fit a kernel on a 1.44MB boot disc anymore.

Yes.

https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg

Is this what peak performance looks like?