SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install Neon using the automatic full disk partitioning option OBSERVED RESULT Calamares sets up a 21Gb swap partition on my laptop with 20Gb of ram. EXPECTED RESULT Either a swap file, as is done on most Ubuntu variants, or a more sane swap partition size. Unless Neon has hibernation enabled, this is quite overboard. IIRC Ubuntu have hibernation disabled by default. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0
Yes, it does have hibernation, and what's why the swap partition is so big: the swap partition has to be as big or bigger than the amount of RAM on your system. Ubuntu uses a smaller swap partition (a file, actually) because they explicitly don't support hibernation. Whether or not hibernation is a good default is a different question. Perhaps it should not be, or perhaps there should be an option in the installer. Those would be separate issues that require separate bug reports though. :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Yes, it does have hibernation, and what's why the swap partition is so big: > the swap partition has to be as big or bigger than the amount of RAM on your > system. Ubuntu uses a smaller swap partition (a file, actually) because they > explicitly don't support hibernation. > > Whether or not hibernation is a good default is a different question. > Perhaps it should not be, or perhaps there should be an option in the > installer. Those would be separate issues that require separate bug reports > though. :) Thanks for clearing that up! But it does bring to the front that Neon is straying a bit from stock Ubuntu base, which many assume to have certain characteristics, more so if the user doesn't look at the dialogs fully, expecting the same results as previous installs. I do not recall noticing this on my previous install some months back, or in virtual machines in recent months. Can I assume this may be a somewhat recent change?