10-09-2017, 03:04 PM
Distros like Ubuntu have gone to swap files because issues can arise on the bigger RAM and faster CPU machines of today under heavy RAM usage load. Dual booting can produce one or the other effect, either one system shuts down to slow, or the other system boots up to slow. Swap files rather than partitions partially solves that shutdown/startup issue. I have used both with multiple booted Linux OSs but for heavy load (outside of RAM limits) computing dedicated swap partitions are still better. This situation will never arise for daily users. Either/or is fine for normal users and swap files are more convenient for new OS installation in some cases. It used to be that you had to install Debian first or the installer would create another swap partition and the UIDs would get messed up in Deb. I've had as many as eight different Linux OSs including Deb using the same swap partition with no issues, other than changing fstab entries occasionally after new installations. You can install LL without swap and create a swap file afterwards, or use the existing swap partition on the drive. I doubt the hibernation issue could cause any issue for a normal user. Maybe if you have 64gig of RAM and do a lot of graphics work.
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