diff --git a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md index 201bfe9..45e6c29 100644 --- a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md +++ b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: How to have root, home, and swap partitions created during OM Lx installation description: published: true -date: 2020-03-12T02:57:37.335Z +date: 2020-03-12T03:18:10.802Z tags: documentation, howto --- @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ If you have what you want select Next and when installed your new sys Note that `/boot/efi` is a the top of the list in first place. This is necessary. -> Note that your swap partition is probably never going to be used. Only a small minority of users these days really need a swap partition. Those that do need swap already know who you are and can adapt accordingly. Usually swap would be needed by really old computers with not enough RAM to run Lx 4 to begin with. How much RAM is enough? In my opinion 4 GB. We do have users running Lx 4 with 2 GB. The Release Notes for Lx 4.0 and 4.1 do say 2 GB and the Calamares installer requires 2 GB. Upgrading the amount of memory in a computer, whether it’s a desktop, tower, or laptop, notebook, is both easy and not that expensive these days. So if your computer is short on memory do consider upgrading. +> Note that your swap partition is probably never going to be used. Only a small minority of users these days really need a swap partition. Those that do need swap already know who you are and can adapt accordingly. Usually swap would be needed by really old computers with not enough RAM to run Lx 4 to begin with. How much RAM is enough? Ideally 4 GB. We do have users running Lx 4 with 2 GB. The Release Notes for Lx 4.0 and 4.1 do say 2 GB and the Calamares installer requires 2 GB. Upgrading the amount of memory in a computer, whether it’s a desktop, tower, or laptop, notebook, is both easy and not that expensive these days. So if your computer is short on memory do consider upgrading. Swap also may still be used on computers doing very intense level of mathematical or scientific calculating or maybe really intense graphic applications. But those users will know what they need. {.is-info}