Oh, ok, I am familiar with the swap file. Back in the early days of Windows, we would move the swap file to a separate partition to improve performance. Do you think a CM4 with 8GB of RAM would be good?
In Linux, it is a separate, explicitly allocated partition. Therefore, when setting up the system, you should decide on the swap size or use the default setting, which is usually the most sensible choice. Changing it later is correspondingly difficult.
When I was deciding whether to buy a CM4 or a CM5, I weighed what was most important to me about the uConsole. The CM4’s lower power consumption was more important to me than the CM5’s higher processing power. Since I’ve been working with Linux for many years, I knew that 8 GB would be more than enough for my use cases. But these days, you don’t want to settle for just 4 GB if you want to be on the safe side. So I went with a CM4 with 8 GB of RAM.
Although I’ve received my uConsole just a few days ago, I’m completely satisfied with my decision so far. It’s important to note, however, that I’m running the uConsole with an NVMe drive and not via an SD card.
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If I went with the CM4 eMMC version, would I be able to use a NVMe with the Hackergadget mod?
yes, only the sd card slot is disabled, everything else is the same
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I have swap in file on the main partition, do not understand what separated partition gives you.
it possible to downclock cm5 and have better power consumption and working youtube. (i also have cm4)
partition or swap file doesn’t matter much on modern flash storage but on older spinning drives a partition allows you to put the swap in a faster place on the disk
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Amazing. I could have sworn it was always its own partition. But you’re right - it doesn’t have to be. I actually didn’t know that. 
But YouTube runs smoothly on my CM4 uConsole.
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YouTube runs fine on my CM4 uConsole.
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how? just in browser or via youtube-dl?
It works on my cm4104000 just in Firefox
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Same here: Firefox and a CM4108000.
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Just using it in Firefox on a CM4 with 4GB Ram (booted from SD card, no eMMC or NVME)
Works great in my browser on a stock cm4. Used Firefox, chromium, and Vivaldi. No issues at all
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YouTube.com didn’t run smoothly in my Firefox on a CM4104000. I wrote my own YouTube client so I could continue to consume my government-allied AI slop (bonus: ad free, except that in my experience ads are the only thing popular channels post…). On my Arch install Chromium-based browsers won’t run at all.
On a CM5116000 it runs smoothly. I still prefer not to use it though.
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