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Have you considered zram/swap? Since running it, i have never seen mem usage > 95%, even under absurd workloads and have never been oom-killed ever since.
Don't you get slower performance in some cases?
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Strongly disagree. Hardware support improved by leaps and bounds last decade and a half. Namespace isolation and cgroups driven containerization. eBPF appeared and gained adoption. Async I/O (and later just everything async) converged on io_uring. Btrfs is _stable_ - some people believed it would never be possible, ever. All kinds of scheduling were iterated and iterated over. All these things are visible across the…
btrfs is stable?? I used it a couple of years ago and really didn’t have a positive experience. I’ve found ZFS much more stable
Whichever one of my test machines is using btrfs is doing fine, though, so on a subjective level that one's been stable enough.
Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
If you’re using a TV. They rarely have DP ports.
It is funny with Linux (the kernel). From the outside it looks like almost nothing ever changes. You switch the computer on, it works away in the background to bring up the desktop and have everything talk. From that perspective it feels like nothing has changed in decades. But then you look at the change log, and almost everything you see added sounds really useful to someone working on this stuff. 35 years of work…
Maybe it's distro packaging, but I suspect it's the kernel, too: In the 20 years I have dipped my toes into Linux, there is no better time to be a desktop user than today. With CachyOS and modern kernel, I have zero audio issues, zero GPU issues, (thanks to Wine/Steam Proton) no gaming issues, and much more rare instances of wifi or sleep problems. The idea of having to install hacky wifi drivers from USB stick are o…
Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
Which part of "because the device doesn't have a DP port" is not enough for you? You can't picture such devices or what's the holdup?
> I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
Sorry if that didn't come across. English isn't my first language
Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? All my monitors support DP, my GPU has more ports for DP ... I am genuinely interested as I've never even considered using HDMI for my Desktop.
> Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? I use DP too when I can . For example my main desktop is using DP. But many devices have HDMI, not DP. For example I've got seven Raspberry Pi here: they all have HDMI and none has DP. There's, what, 100 million Raspberry Pi in the world by now? Don't know the number but: devices that do not support DP aren't rare. And Linux runs on much more than desktop PCs.
I am using it exclusively and since many decades.
I was specifically asking for desktop usage though, because that's what I am mostly working with.
If that point didn't come across, I am sorry. English isn't my first language.
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Macs definitely can use DP Alt Mode over USB-C ports, so if you get a USB-C -> DP cable it's straight up DP to the monitor.
Or you can just plug things into HDMI port without dongles.
Been using it since the early nineties .
At work I use Windows Server 2025 as my desktop ( the alternative would be the dreadful AI infested Windows 11).
While Windows Server 2025 is not dreadful , the Linux experience is so much nicer .