Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 484
You can do Linux swap on a regular file, but using a file is the real bonkers. Files exist in the file system, which means that they don't necessarily represent a contiguous area of disk space, which is the main property you want from a swap file (on spinning rust, anyway).
On Windows if your swapfile grows it may fragment. On Linux the swap is a partition and doesn't grow on demand. If you really need to, you can create a file in
All in all, the Linux way makes more sense to me. The Windows swapfile was always a massive pain in the ass, stuck on your C partition eating valuable space and growing unexpectedly when you had an unanticipated memory demand and then never shrinking again.