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I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.
That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.
I hate that I kind of like this point...
Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.
You can set swappiness to 0
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I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this
someone put swap on google drive
Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?
Use dropbox like any pleb would
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/mount.davfs.8.html mount cloud memory as folder and put swapfile on it
Swap on S3. That's brutal
Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)
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Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod
I think you meant DVD-RAM.
Sup, that would actually be possible.
Yeah, never had a problem with incompatible hardware on Linux.
No siree, not a once!
Such an up and down though. I have an ancient epson scanner that cannot be used on modern windows, but I just installed the driver on linux and everything has been amazing.
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Did you ever had to buy a new laptop because Linux stopped supporting the current one?
I've had the reverse. I started using arch because debian didn't have my wifi driver yet.
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No but I am looking for a new laptop and this time I'll definitely spent more time checking Linux compatibility.
My previous thinkpad worked fine out of the box, but my current laptop is an HP Omen, that I mostly selected for the price to performance ratio. But I immediately learned that Linux compatibility sucked. Like not being able to boot an Ubuntu usb drive (without messing with the boot parameters).
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I did the opposite. After one of the big updates, Windows 10 decided it was no longer going to work with the Vista-era drivers for an old Core 2 Duo laptop. To be fair to Microsoft, was I pretty impressed when I initially installed Windows 10 and it accepted those ancient drivers without any complaints on a laptop that was 10 years old at that time.
So I instead installed Manjaro and everything worked just fine.
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This is not a problem with Linux, this is a problem with hardware manufacturers not making drivers for Linux.
Which is understandable, honestly. Making drivers is surely not an easy task. Targeting Windows covers the 80/20 rule.
I just broke out into a cold sweat remembering trying to get wifi to function on my netbook back in 2k8.
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That fucking wolfs face never fails to make me laugh
Not true. For modern Linux you need a processor with a memory controller and 8mb of ram. If also need to be a processor from the 21 century.
Openwrt beg to differ, 
https://popovicu.com/posts/789-kb-linux-without-mmu-riscv/ here's guide for mmu less Linux and here's how it runs doom https://hackaday.com/2022/12/07/a-tiny-risc-v-emulator-runs-linux-with-no-mmu-and-yes-it-runs-doom/
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At least pentiums are still supported. Who knows what all those IBM Thinkpad users are capable of if they weren't distracted.
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Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?
No it is not possible. For a more detailed explanation read here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/928308/is-it-possible-to-use-ubuntu-without-ram-at-all
But it's possible with almost zero ram, like 32mb, but it'll be a very slow experience
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optional CPU?
Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.
Wow, now that is literally insane and super awesome at the same time lol
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Well, you can run Linux on an FPGA...
That's just a CPU with extra steps
Everything looks like CPU when you are linux
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i remember when i could run windows 3.1 on a potato
A processor and ram is merely "recommended specs"
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