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  • Yeah, you will, in time. If I recall correctly, Debian gives 3 options for pre-set partitioning and the first one has just enough swap partition for normal usage, and the others are one with enough for hibernation and one with no swap. As for many things, hibernation is also optional in Linux world.

    On Windows, there is something similar to swap called hiberfil.sys. You can delete that to gain space if you don’t need hibernation. However unlike Windows, swap is also useful for things other than hibernation so we usually include it on our installations even if we have RAM more than 16 GB.














  • I remember reading something about their sometimes having low amounts of RAM so they do some weird things to make up for it.

    That makes sense. I was doing a similar but opposite thing when I was still using Windows. It comes with hibernate but I never used it so I was removing the swap equivalent of it every time I install it.

    Well, at least have fun with it. Good luck! :)