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    RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] tourist 211 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    ITT:

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

    The internet is srs bzns.

    [–] bruhduh 15 points 9 months ago

    2a4-3619467752

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    [–] [email protected] 165 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I prefer to put my swap partition on CD-RW.

    [–] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That way you'll know you've run out of physical memory when the cd-rom starts spinning up.

    [–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

    I hate that I kind of like this point...

    [–] marcos 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Linux doesn't wait for you to be out of memory to swap-out pages.

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    [–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if anyone has actually managed to do this

    [–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    someone put swap on google drive

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Android studio was asking for more ram, what else would i do?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

    Use dropbox like any pleb would

    [–] bruhduh 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/mount.davfs.8.html mount cloud memory as folder and put swapfile on it

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Swap on S3. That's brutal

    [–] bruhduh 16 points 9 months ago

    Download more ram became possible with one simple trick)

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    [–] ObviouslyNotBanana 27 points 9 months ago

    Personally enjoy my swap on an iPod

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I think you meant DVD-RAM.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Sup, that would actually be possible.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Anything can be ram if you wait long enough

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I use my whiteboard for swap.

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    [–] [email protected] 146 points 9 months ago (25 children)

    Yeah, never had a problem with incompatible hardware on Linux.

    No siree, not a once!

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ 74 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Did you ever had to buy a new laptop because Linux stopped supporting the current one?

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    I've had the reverse. I started using arch because debian didn't have my wifi driver yet.

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    [–] camelbeard 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    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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    [–] platypus_plumba 23 points 9 months ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That fucking wolfs face never fails to make me laugh

    [–] NotMelon 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Please don't fuck wolfs face

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    [–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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.

    [–] bruhduh 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

    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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    [–] squid_slime 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Would it be possible to forgo ram for just swap?

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    But it's possible with almost zero ram, like 32mb, but it'll be a very slow experience

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    [–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Btw. If you disable the Intel ME, TPM is nonfunctional.

    Yay!

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    you can disable intel ME?

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    [–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    optional CPU?

    [–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

    Wow, now that is literally insane and super awesome at the same time lol

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    [–] Treczoks 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well, you can run Linux on an FPGA...

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You can install windows in a brick wall.

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    [–] Robin 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That's just a CPU with extra steps

    [–] uis 13 points 9 months ago

    Everything looks like CPU when you are linux

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    i remember when i could run windows 3.1 on a potato

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