It’s the opposite actually, in terms of implementation Zram is a hack, but it does have it’s use case when your system load doesn’t far exceed your total RAM, on the other hand swap is tightly integrated into the system and it’s on it’s way to implement “Virtual Swap” which is effectively Zram but not a hack, making it like a hundred times better, see This blogpost for a detailed explanation
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Coki91@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.
1·12 days agoThat would be “snap-pac” for anyone wondering, thanks for the tip but my system is not on btrfs yet, I did try all of it on a VM though so that’s my next reinstallation for sure
Coki91@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.
11·13 days agoI unironically pacman -Syu’d today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos
Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it’s previous’ version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)
How bad cou…
HOLY SHIT

And the App still sucks balls because it only supports Vulkan-backed video decoding, which limits it’s usage to fairly recent hardware instead of, you know the old underpowered devices which benefit the most and in which the Windows version does work
Which was brought up on day 1 of Beta release and nothing has been improved upon