Honest question: why are we still defaulting to swap partitions in Linux distributions?

@karolherbst IIUC (big caveat) using a swapfile instead of a dedicated partition doesn't work for hibernation due to a combination of issues with grub, kernel_lockdown security, and / or allocating a swapfile on CoW filesystems like Btrfs

but if you don't need hibernation, you can simplify your setup considerably. that's just not (yet?) the default

@decathorpe okay, but that does sound fixable? Though I can also understand if that wouldn't be trivial to solve at all.
@karolherbst yeah, it appears to be in the "fixable but not trivial" category