I wonder why that is that zram didn’t make it. Bazzite (and maybe some others) make use of zram, but maybe they feel like their testing doesn’t yet have enough coverage to ship it, and perhaps it will be in 3.6.1 or be added as a late addition to the 3.6.0 build.
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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So the zram change didn’t make it? I thought it was a great change, but it’s not mentioned here.
Kernel 6.5 is an odd choice as 6.6 is the latest longterm release.
Great that Mesa is up-to-date though.
Does overclocking support for the LCD Deck mean we can increase frequency?
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month ago
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Fedora has been using it for years. The only thing that comes to my mind is that maybe it had some issues with the Deck’s standby mode? I wouldn’t think so, but why else would they not ship it for now?
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 month ago
So, I will say that sleep mode on Bazzite uses more power than standard SteamOS, but I have no idea if that’s related to zram usage.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Yeah, I was looking forward to ZRAM. I know it doesn’t usually help performance (I think Cryobyte tries it on all of his game optimization videos and it never makes enough of a difference), but I figure it will still help with running out of memory.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It would also help with SSD lifespan, especially on smaller SSDs. It’ll likely improve performance further with the 64 GB eMMC model some people are still using stock.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They run their patched kernels until the patches made it upstream. They don’t want to port a patchset to new kernels all the time.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ah that makes sense I guess. Just felt weird to me to jump from 6.1 to 6.5 instead of 6.6.