From my Linux desktop experience, I could not disagree more. When my 16GB ThinkPad runs out of memory, the OOM Killer blinks for a fraction of a second to kill the faulty process. If I had a swap partition, disk IO would render the system unusable for hours before the OOM Killer kicks in. Also, I don't want my SSD lifetime be sacrificed for a neglectable amount of better RAM usage -- on the desktop, I either run out of memory quickly (because my code makes mistakes) or I never feel the reach for 16GB of RAM.<p>On the server the situation is very different, and a few GB Swap on a spinning disc might be a good idea even when having 128GB of RAM.