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Almost finished setting up my new OS, it's gonna be my main (dual booting with Windows on separate disk). Tokyo Night theme for GTK, xfce terminal, btop and vim. Papirus Dark icons.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unless you plan on using that laptop daily, I’d say to not put Arch on it.

Ha, you're right. I did end up installing it on my 13" laptop, and after a few minutes without issues decided to #yolo it onto my main machine and blow away my Ubuntu install. Loving it so far, and yeah the frequency of AUR updates is impressive.