What a joy, I am back on Solus!

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olivir It sort of creates a compressed swap file to RAM, which will be used before the system starts swapping to disk. In a nutshell you can store more stuff in RAM with some CPU tradeoff.

    penny-farthing It looks like you are creating a tmpfs mount for /tmp, this is not the same as ZRAM. ZRAM is a compressed swap device that lives in memory, it's most useful for devices with low memory but devices with more memory can also benefit. There's no downside to enabling it, if your system doesn't need that memory then it won't use it and the performance impact is negligible.

    olivir There's probably not a big difference, but your system can store more filesystem pages in memory which can improve responsiveness.

          WetGeek I just ordered another (newer) Optiplex that will be here on Sunday

          Sunday came and went, and I'm now streaming TV wtih my "new" Optiplex, running Solus 4.4 Plasma. Also on that machine is Elisa, with my music library loaded, and Transmission, to handle torrents. Because my wife watches TV after I've gone to bed, the streaming computer runs 24/7. Thus it's a perfect place for a torrent server.

          After fussing around a bit with Transmission's properties (it's been years since I've used it), it's now seeding all four of the Solus editions. There hasn't been a lot of traffic yet, but enough for me to tell that it's set up correctly and is working well.

          I expect the traffic to pick up after more folks who haven't already updated to 4.4 want to install it from the new .ISO file, and choose to get it with a torrent.

            brent elfprince you did not get your performance question directly answered

            That's because he didn't ask about performance as far as I can see.

                elfprince More like preferences, just like dev team members preferring matrix to forum. We have no choice but to follow, or leave. 😄

                Ever since you complained about that there have been regular posts detailing the changes in a given week's sync have been posted to the forums by team members like @EbonJaeger

                Surely you don't expect the team to also move their day-to-day chatter here. A forum is not a nice place to have a fast-paced conversation. Post a message, then keep reloading the page until you see the answer from the other person(s), rinse and repeat ^^

                    Staudey I agree. I introduced that specific word thinking that was what he was getting it. either way, I'm glad I researched it (in conjuction with the Buddies announcement) or I would have never known the reasons the industry was moving in that (wayland) direction. informative. edit: PS I learned the most from your Sharp thread

                      Staudey My remarks to brent were a joking statement of the facts, not a complaint. Sorry that you took it as one. Also, I would not expect an every day chatter to be conducted on forum of course. Makes no sense. Only the tech support and other distro related posts would belong on the forum, imo. And yes, I did notice, and am grateful that the team is being present on the forum on the regular basis with regard to notices etc. All good.

                        Now I'm using Solus 4.4 Plasma as my daily driver and it's awesome!
                        Thank you Solus team.

                        I've been waiting for this before coming back. Feels good man. Thank you all!

                        I am positively impressed. I like Gnome, but it is not perfect. Budgie is what I like more. Rarely seen a distro working so fast on my PC. Congratulations.

                        Staudey It's trending like crazy

                        Traffic on my torrent server has picked up, too. What I can't understand ... the most popular download seems to be for MATE. At, like, 6 times as much as the second place DE (which is GNOME). Actually, GNOME, Budgie and Plasma are almost equal. But MATE? That's the part I can't understand.

                            WetGeek Probably just a random coincidence. In my case the popularity of ISOs by upload ratios goes:

                            1. Budgie (Ratio 3.13)
                            2. Plasma (Ratio 2.06)
                            3. GNOME (Ratio 1.87)
                            4. MATE (Ratio 0.81) [yep, I haven't even uploaded one full copy of this one 😀]

                            (also today the Budgie 4.3️⃣ ISO seems to be quite popular for some reason 😆)

                                Staudey Probably just a random coincidence

                                Yours is much more as I'd expect. It could just be that there are fewer peers serving MATE torrents, I guess. Anyway, it's great to see Solus getting some love.