As long as you have enough free disk space and set up some swap memory too. Otherwise, it "degrades" by OOMing arbitrary processes (which can easily break your

As long as you have enough free disk space and set up some swap memory too. Otherwise, it "degrades" by OOMing arbitrary processes (which can easily break your desktop session, if such a process ends up being something like dbus), and even with swap, may end up slowing your desktop session to a grind if you've got some memory leaking long-running processes. Running out of disk? Sorry, things will just randomly blow up :)