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Huh? The debian wiki is horrendous compared to Arch. You are better off reading the manuals and trying to get a grip on it yourself.
Kind of weird example. When most new software is not even available on debian or heavily outdated due to point release model.
Oh then I misunderstood, sorry.
The Debian 12 installer creates only 1GB of swap by default which I believe was new behaviour from when I install Debian 11 the first time around. Apparently it's to make it easier for server users but what a pain. Anyway the easiest way to fix that is to just reinstall, since most of my stuff lives on Nextcloud and Gitea it shouldn't be too hard
I still don't understand what the problem is, but if you want more swap just get more swap. You can resize the partitions if you want but you can also just add swap as files instead of partitions.
dd
.mkswap
.swapon
./etc/fstab
so it mounts automatically:/swapfile swap defaults 0 0
Are you talking about the Graphical Installer?
I've installed it on other machines since and it only confirms stuff for you if you decide to deviate from the defaults