1. Once a week is fine, people have gone longer without issues but it has also bitten others. I do it more often but it's no biggie.
2. a. If you weren't using pantheon, gnome/mate is the closest developmentally speaking since they're both gtk based. There's a bunch of dock programs, docky is probably the most popular and probably the one you ought to go for. 2. b. If there aren't themes available, you'll have to make your own. good luck with that as I don't have much of a clue about theming. 2. c. If at all posible, I avoid anything that's not in the main repos. Pantheon is buggy in elementary, so it's going to be at least as buggy in arch (but realistically more so). I like stable environments, while it might be still usable, for me I wouldn't want it on any machine I'm running that I depend on. |
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Well, you have themes for the desktop, for your icons and so on. Sometimes you can get themes that are completely comprehensive (icons, desktop, fonts and so on).
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Arch is designed from the ground up to work as a rolling release and has no complicated system of multiple repositories (even when tracking [testing] the main repositories are left in place) and pacman is one of the most flexible and powerful package managers around. [1] Quote:
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The important thing to remember is that the longer you leave it between updates, the greater the number of packages that can potentially bring new bugs into the system. It is *much* easier to track down & troubleshoot new bugs with a shorter upgrade interval. Arch is like a bike -- it's only stable when it's rolling. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_tips [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ecommendations |
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Also check out the "Maintaining Arch" section and other important info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...stem_stability And generally get used to referring to the Arch Wiki because most of the time that's the best place to find answers. In my opinion, at least. Quote:
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Hey guys, I'm doing a multi-boot so how big should I make my Arch partition at the least (to where I'll still have a little breathing room though)
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^ You could probably get away with 15GiB.
I find 30GiB to be plenty unless I have Steam games on the system. |
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Currently my plan is to have the following partition layout: 80 GB - Windows 10 30 GB - Arch Linux 30 GB - Mac OSX El Capitan 80 GB - Storage / Empty Space (to not use over 80 of SSD) The thing is, will all my Linux programs have to go on the SSD, and in to that partition? I don't want to divvy up my 3TB into different partitions; I plan to just keep it NTFS. 1) But does that mean all my Linux programs have to stay on that partition then, or is there a way I can put them on my NTFS 3 TB? and 2) Do you see anywhere I could shrink space perhaps to allow for more storage space? 60GB should be fine for storage; I mainly plan to have all my Elder Scrolls games there and then whatever else. But I'll take whatever more storage space I can get ;3 |
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