Stop Doing Swap Partitions

STOP DOING SWAP PARTITIONS • HARD DRIVES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE RAM • YEARS OF LINUX SYSADMINNING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going beyond CLOSING A FEW TABS • Wanted to avoid the OOM killer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ZRAM • "Yes please give me a dedicated 64GB logical volume of SWAP. Please give me unresizable block devices trapped at the end of my disk." - STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED LOOK at what Neckbeards have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fdisk and GParted Live USBs we built for them. (This is REAL PARTITIONING, done by REAL LINUX USERS): # mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3 # echo /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab # swapon -a ???? ??????? ????????? ??? "Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open." They have played us for absolute fools.

A Linux meme mocks users who create swap partitions and perform elaborate disk partitioning instead of simply closing a few applications or using ZRAM. The fake terminal commands and confused question marks portray traditional partitioning as needless technical ritual, while the final SSD joke exaggerates the damage caused by leaving Electron apps open.

• @dev_meme / 8441 2026-09-19