On many more efficient linux distros you can get away with a reduced or eliminated swap file. When SSDs first became popular capacities were relatively small, a

On many more efficient linux distros you can get away with a reduced or eliminated swap file. When SSDs first became popular capacities were relatively small, and I do remember not wanting to give up 8gb of a 120gb drive to swap that would be unused on a system with 8gb of memory. I setup a few systems that way and never had an issue. That said, you are setting yourself up for instability so I wouldn't ever do this on anything mission critical. Also, the balance of storage to memory is not the same in 2024 as it was 12 years ago.