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  • Dedale
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    Originally posted by bug77 View Post

    Not really. The swap partition is a solution for the HDD era. I haven't used a swap partition in years and never noticed a performance difference. Plus, with 8+ GB RAM, Linux hardly swaps anyway.
    On my 16 Go system, i sometimes swap. Usually BOINC related stuff. I also had an ethereum wallet that took ages and a humongous amount of RAM to synchronize. In fact i failed to sync on my desktop and i had to move the files on a laptop with a SSD. Never had that kind of wallet again.

    BOINC is a soft for volunteer citizen science computing, you compute for scientific projects you support. Ethereum is a cryptocurrency.

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  • artyom.h31
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    Originally posted by sloth77 View Post
    Isn't performance much better with swap partitions though? I thought that was the main reason that Linux retained them.
    Swap file works in a totally different way compared to a regular file. When kernel accesses swap file it bypasses all FS logic and works directly on the block device level. So if a swap file is not fragmented it has the same performance level as a swap partition. And there are very little chances that a fresh system with a recently formatted partition will have a fragmented swap file.

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  • marmarama
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    Originally posted by Griffin View Post
    People should just get the Ubuntu GNOME edition. That is the standard Linux Desktop anyway.
    The de facto standard Linux desktop is the ChromeOS shell. Android's launcher would be vastly larger, but is arguable, given how little 'traditional' Linux is in Android. ChromeOS though, is a more-or-less fully functional Linux, and has more than twice the market share of all other desktop Linux put together. On that basis (and it's a better basis than any other I can see), ChromeOS's shell is the standard.

    The rest of us, running 'also ran' Linux distributions and desktops, are free to choose anything we like. It would be helpful to understand each other and support each other, so that non-ChromeOS, non-Android desktop Linux doesn't fade into total irrelevance. Instead, we play these stupid 'my desktop is more standard than yours' games, like bald men fighting over a comb.

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  • eydee
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    Originally posted by Griffin View Post
    People should just get the Ubuntu GNOME edition. That is the standard Linux Desktop anyway.
    Not really ever since Microsoft stole it and renamed it to Windows 8. Why would you want Ubuntu with Windows 8 UI?

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  • L_A_G
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    Originally posted by Griffin View Post
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    I don't see any evidence in there for the assertion that Ubuntu Gnome is somehow the biggest Ubuntu distro.

    Let's hope they've made some major strides in Gnome since the last time I tried using it with CEntOS 8 because the experience I had can only be described as dreadful.

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  • bison
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    Originally posted by Griffin View Post
    People should just get the Ubuntu GNOME edition. That is the standard Linux Desktop anyway.
    People should just get Windows 10. That is the standard desktop operating system anyway.

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  • abracat
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    http://www.cio.com/article/2881172/s...vironment.html If you truly care abort market svare used Windows like the rest I personalet enjoy Mate. Other people May enjoy elementary. Such a post is unsuited for Linux sine Linux is defined by freedom of choice.

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  • bug77
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    Originally posted by Griffin View Post
    Ubuntu GNOME have a larger market share than any of the spins based on lesser desktops. Oh and you might have missed the big news. Gnome will soon be default desktop on Ubuntu as well.

    Congratulations to the lesser desktops anyway. It is nice for them to rank high on the most useless list ever. At least it is better than nothing.
    Feel free to link proof.

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  • randomizer
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    Originally posted by sloth77 View Post
    Isn't performance much better with swap partitions though? I thought that was the main reason that Linux retained them.
    A partition mitigates the access time penalty of filesystem fragmentation by cordoning off a portion of the disk from unrelated writes. For an SSD the difference between a partition and a file should be negligible. Most people still use HDDs, but as HDD performance is much better than it used to be and RAM capacity has increased (resulting in lower swap usage) the performance penalty of fragmentation is probably not nearly as significant as it once was. If you need to use so much swap that fragmentation is a problem then your performance is probably already terrible.

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  • DanL
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    Originally posted by bug77 View Post
    Plus, with 8+ GB RAM, Linux hardly swaps anyway.
    I hardly use any swap on my 4GB system, except maybe a little when using a VM. I'm not a big multitasker though.

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