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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

can't you change the compression algorithm, or its compression level?

but yeah it would be much better if we could set it on a per-file basis, and also on demand so that it can compress/decompress a file in place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

i tried many different algorithms at the time, but it didn't really matter. my laptop would always, eventually, lag and get pretty hot and I would check the task manager and sure enough there were the btrfs compression proccesses hogging the cpu