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    [–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Real Linux users do not use MacOS window decorations in their graphics.

    ;)

    [–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Used a website to make the windows since I was on mobile. Thought it looked too plain w/o the window decorations, but yeah. I mean there’s so many distros and themes, who’s to say it couldn’t be Linux. I’ve seen KDE reskinned to look like OSX

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    [–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

    I have a small home server that I occasionally push through huge batch processing jobs. During the pushes, I might collide with other projects that use a pretty big chunk of the RAM. So, to make sure it's never a killer (just a major slow down), I made a 32GB swap file. If I need it, it's there and disk is hella cheap.

    This machine has never had a GUI installed. No browsers to complain about, just plain old data processing, stats models, and old skool computing.

    Now, my worst case scenario was building a C++ program on a raspberry pi gen 1. That has 256MB of RAM. g++ ran out building, so I NFS mounted a huge disk from my desktop machine and made the swap file there. The build took a while... but the program ran fine after the week long build, no swap needed.

    [–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    And here I am using swap for my self hosted services, some of which use ridiculous amount of ram.

    [–] queeradjacent@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Maybe stop giving a shit what I do with my partions? 🤷 Mine is definitely to try and make hibernate work on a shitty old laptop that'll drain the battery if I let it sleep and unplug it.

    [–] onipa@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I was thinking about hibernation as well but wasn’t sure if hibernation might also work with a swap file

    [–] queeradjacent@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

    Honestly the kernel is smart enough to only use it if you need it most of the time from what I can remember from my admin days, no idea why op cares.

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