In this article if I am reading correctly he is talking only about using Linux with Optane SSD’s I don’t see any mention of system acceleration. Perhaps there is a reason for that.
Wait, now I’m just repeating what @abucodonosor said above. Dog on it. 
I meant well.
Don’t forget that Intel has Community support. I’ve used it myself. You may even see some of my dumb ass questions there. Anyway I would ask there what other Linux users are doing with this hareware.
Yes, I’ll try.
I meant found that…
The reference is too far beyond my limited knowledge but I can see it has no reference to optane …
It seems RST has some support on Linux via MD RAID (after intel’s contribution), maybe not widespread to the majority of Linux distributions …
There are reports of benefits in performance when optane 16GB is used as a swap partition in mainly reading use…
Small Optane drive as swap | AnandTech Forums: Technology, Hardware, Software, and Deals
