I'm Swedish, and I've never in my life heard minnespinne or minnepinne other than as a joke in the realm of funny direct translation (from "memory stick"). The only two terms I've been hearing are "USB-minne" and _maybe_ "minnessticka", the latter being an adaptation of "memory stick", (the noun sticka is more like splinter.) USB-minne definitely being the mostly used term, by far.:-)
Yep. My desktop PC has 2 GiB of RAM, and I set my swap partition to 1 GiB. Whenever I look at gnome-system-monitor, the memory usage is always between like 10 and 25 percent, and swap usage is at a static 0 percent. All the time. Probably never swapped a byte in its existence.
I don't do much else than code and download/play media, so I don't imagine it should consume a lot of RAM (which is one of the reasons I chose to use such a small swap partition); I guess it all depends on what you plan to do with your machine.
All the best!
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I'm Swedish, and I've never in my life heard minnespinne or minnepinne other than as a joke in the realm of funny direct translation (from "memory stick"). The only two terms I've been hearing are "USB-minne" and _maybe_ "minnessticka", the latter being an adaptation of "memory stick", (the noun sticka is more like splinter.) USB-minne definitely being the mostly used term, by far. :-)
Yep. My desktop PC has 2 GiB of RAM, and I set my swap partition to 1 GiB. Whenever I look at gnome-system-monitor, the memory usage is always between like 10 and 25 percent, and swap usage is at a static 0 percent. All the time. Probably never swapped a byte in its existence. I don't do much else than code and download/play media, so I don't imagine it should consume a lot of RAM (which is one of the reasons I chose to use such a small swap partition); I guess it all depends on what you plan to do with your machine. All the best!