Windows have swap too tho. It's just no one tried to scam penguin-aligned users like that.
Putting the w10 logo over this classic XP wallpaper serves a purpose of generalizing, but ughhhghghhh.
38 0 ReplyIndeed, windows do swapping and paging by default.
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If you setup the swap file to be in a virtual cloud synced drive, technically you'd be downloading more ram.
17 0 ReplyGentoo users with a 16-core processor and 8 Gigs of RAM updating their packages.
16 0 Reply2GB per core is barely enough to build rust these days if you disable lto
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The btop in the meme may or may not be a 14 core xeon 2697 v3, with 48gb of ram running gentoo....
1 0 ReplyIdk but it's not representative of actual memory usage. Swap isn't system ram. I'm sure if you have enough memory in your windows system the page file would also be empty.
The joke is still funny even if windows preloads cached files into memory to speed up application startup and usage if available.
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Proceeds to mount gdrive as swap
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4 0 ReplyBut Windows also have swap memory?
Maybe I do not understand shitposting...
2 0 Replylinux takes lower amounts of ram and will automatically kill unused processes taking up lots of ram if you reach the limit of ram
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This will kill the SSD.
1 1 ReplyThe SSD can have a little swap, as a treat.
(But no, it's fine, SSDs evolved, outside of some server cache things you won't know the difference.)
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