As far as I am aware both windows and linux (several distros) use swap by default. On windows it will be a file on the C drive and on Linux it will be a swap pa

As far as I am aware both windows and linux (several distros) use swap by default. On windows it will be a file on the C drive and on Linux it will be a swap partition. Of course they are not going to swap unless they have to, but they will swap in default configuration.