Yeah, I remember using ramdrive.sys in the DOS days to make a drive letter in memory to speed up our CAD software. My point was windows has similar tools for memory compression and drives, just that it is not as easily tinkeres with like Linux.
These things exist in windows (or as 3 party tool like RAWcopy etc for writeback) its just their OS is not setup to make tinkering a simple matter like in Linux. You don't have to convince me as I'm already a Linux household since Windows10 came out. But the post was claiming Linux was superior because of Swap...Windows has this, so the meme is a bad one
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BCsven@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
Windows has swap too though
Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
yeah, in poweshell type Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah, I remember using ramdrive.sys in the DOS days to make a drive letter in memory to speed up our CAD software. My point was windows has similar tools for memory compression and drives, just that it is not as easily tinkeres with like Linux.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
And the next question, can you make a RAM drive? Yes ImDisk. Even DOS had ramdrive.sys
Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
These things exist in windows (or as 3 party tool like RAWcopy etc for writeback) its just their OS is not setup to make tinkering a simple matter like in Linux. You don't have to convince me as I'm already a Linux household since Windows10 came out. But the post was claiming Linux was superior because of Swap...Windows has this, so the meme is a bad one
jrgd@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Windows does have memory compression, though you can't really change the algorithm or how aggressive it is. AFAIK it is just a toggle of on or off.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
gregorum@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Get the aloe vera
mellejwz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
If you use swap (excluding hibernation) it means you need more ram.