It’s the opposite actually, in terms of implementation Zram is a hack, but it does have it’s use case when your system load doesn’t far exceed your total RAM, on the other hand swap is tightly integrated into the system and it’s on it’s way to implement “Virtual Swap” which is effectively Zram but not a hack, making it like a hundred times better, see This blogpost for a detailed explanation

That would be “snap-pac” for anyone wondering, thanks for the tip but my system is not on btrfs yet, I did try all of it on a VM though so that’s my next reinstallation for sure

I unironically pacman -Syu’d today and it broke 3 applications that depended on ffmpeg (yes it did update ffmpeg correctly) all from official repos

Tried to build them all from source for like an hour but the compilation also fails, ended up symlinking the libavcodec.so into it’s previous’ version name and everything works again with zero issues (who designed this shit?)

sudo sed -i