Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can’t reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I’m so glad to have another reason to proudly say “I use Arch btw”
::: It was a joke of course :::
“Some of the use cases include /tmp storage, use as swap disks, various caches under /var and maybe many more. :)”
https://docs.kernel.org/6.1/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.html
I think maybe you think I said “zram offers a subset of features of swap space”. Rather, zram offers a fundamentally different function from swap space as it resides in memory rather than on disk. It does not and cannot replace the function of disk-based swap space.
Edit: again, I don’t want to argue semantics, generally when people say “swap space” they mean the on-disk partition and not just any memory that can be spilled to.
TIL that zram actually does advertise itself as somewhere you can swap to, and generally their terminology is correct, but I think most Linux users colloquially understand swap space as residing in nonvolatile memory.
I think this is like calling a usb-connected flash drive a ‘usb’. That’s one of the use cases, but not purpose of the thing. (This sounded better in my head, it’s more like calling a usb port a ‘flash drive’)
Better one - Firefox’s use cases include watching videos but you wouldn’t call it a video player.