Comment Comment by baq Linux vm defaults are legit insane in 2026.- system dies under memory pressure (regardless of swapping, actually not having swap makes it worse which should be common knowledge by now)- system dies under disk pressure even if there are tons of free memory (this one is fun to diagnose)- system can technically not die, but render itself useless (or worse) under memory pressure by the oom killer- memory compression of any sort is not enabled- ...Both Windows and macOS do so much better out of the box for essentially any workload. parent baq 4 months ago
- system dies under memory pressure (regardless of swapping, actually not having swap makes it worse which should be common knowledge by now)
- system dies under disk pressure even if there are tons of free memory (this one is fun to diagnose)
- system can technically not die, but render itself useless (or worse) under memory pressure by the oom killer
- memory compression of any sort is not enabled
- ...
Both Windows and macOS do so much better out of the box for essentially any workload.