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Looking for a distro recommendation
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Fedora is a great distro for development (used by Torvalds himself ;-).
If RAM is a problem you could try using ZRAM. ~~Unlike the name suggests,~~ this compresses data in RAM instead of swapping to disk, so that more data fits in there than normally available. Fedora for example uses ~~zswap~~zram by default with a value of
max(0.5*RAM, 4GB)but can be configured to utilise more.[source]
EDIT: confused zswap and zram