As someone who has always been cautious about SSD writes (possibly overcautious/ paranoid? Idk, some seem to think it's not a concern with modern SSDs. But I haven't really spent any time researching recently.) I always like to have a hard disk as well as an SSD and I put my writeback device and any swap partitions there.
Sorry this probably isn't a helpful answer.
Sorry, it's been a while since I read this stuff and I don't have the links. The state of web searching these days sucks and I can't easily find them.
One bit I remember was that a lot of the concern about LRU inversion in ZRAM that might make ZSWAP look preferable is out of date since the addition of a writeback option to ZRAM. I also remember people claiming that ZRAM had an advantage in being multithreaded.
FWIW I find this three year old answer saying the kswapd that ZSWAP uses is single threaded but there is a patch to make it multithreaded that significantly improves it's performance. No idea if this is out of date.
I'm talking about ZRAM and I did mean writeback.
"With CONFIG_ZRAM_WRITEBACK, zram can write idle/incompressible page to backing storage rather than keeping it in memory."
From https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.html
I relate to this too, and I think I've figured out why. I've spent most of my life cultivating a normal impersonation. This has made me sensitive to what is not normal, and even judgemental of it. The problem is you can only keep up a normal-impersonation for so long, and it can be exhausting.
Why can't people just be the right amount of weird?
It's pretty important to keep sodium, magnesium, and potassium in balance. If I wasn't eating and depending on an electrolyte drink for these I'd make damn sure it had all three and in reasonably correct proportions.
Aren't their embedded systems that run the Linux kernel without the core-utils (maybe with busybox instead) and would therefore be non-gnu linux variants?
I just want to comment on the Nvidia thing, since they are so common on gaming machines. And I have no opinion / data on the performance of nvidia vs other to gpus with linux.
With nvidia on linux you will be fine if you just do a couple of things: hang back a little on applying updates (specifically kernel and Nvidia driver updates) and watch the relevant forums / lists for problems from nvidia users. Only update after a few days have gone by without such reports or, if reports have surfaced, after they get fixed.
openSUSE Tumbleweed user here, and I've actually had very few problems, and they were specifically caused by prime. I may have dodged a problem or two with the above strategy though.
Creepy has a lot to do with not picking up on signals from other people that your attention is not wanted (or in the case of genuine creeps not caring about and ignoring those signals). Unfortunately that works against the advice you just gave. I do realize this is problematic when that advice is kind of needed by someone who suffers from excessive self-consciousness.
And of course you mainly learn to pick up on those signals by practice. Which I guess points back to your advice.
This is a theoretical advantage of ZSWAP over ZRAM, but when I researched it, every real world comparison I found seemed to find that ZRAM performed better even when this advantage should have come into play.
I'm not going to remember the right terminology, but you can also configure it with a chunk of disk to stick files that it can't compress into so they don't end up clogging up your swapspace.
No it's actually worse than superfluous commas, and the author is using them where things like periods ought to be. The author does not actually understand how use sentences properly.