Had a quick look at the BIOS install blog post. It's recommending grub as a bootloader, so dual booting should work as long as you don't mess up in partitioning and accidentally delete or overwrite your other OS.
Well I'm on macOs Big Sur beta (just updated to the latest named 11 release).
Was planning on backing up and doing a clean install somehow in the future anyway, and have been thinking about using linux for a while for a less-bloated coding envirorment
Although I'm not really looking to replace any current install, I'll definitely check this out in a vm. See how many and what programs it has preinstalled and have a look through the themes.
Maybe throw it on a machine next time I do a reinstall if it is as nice as it looks.
That's a fair concern but in my experience you have lots of the benefits of being up near the edge with very little blood.
It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly.
For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!
Whenever I use an Arch laptop that I haven't touched in a while and need to do an update on it, there will be update conflicts that need to be resolved manually. I'm pretty sure this happened every time. There are tons of posts on the forum about update conflicts.
I tried Deepin on my 4K laptop a few months ago to try it out and see how "beautiful" it was. Unfortunately I'm a laptop hoarder and when I go to reach for a laptop to use I tend to pull one that is running Kubuntu instead. I couldn't get used to the centered menu bar and a lack of being able to make changes was frustrating. I don't see this as much different than that...but I may give it a whirl when I get a few minutes to format that 4K laptop.
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Was planning on backing up and doing a clean install somehow in the future anyway, and have been thinking about using linux for a while for a less-bloated coding envirorment
So thanks for the tip, will check that out.
It helps to read the Arch news link but normally I've missed it the rare time I ought to have checked it and you can still just figure things out and move on quickly.
For years now I've had almost nothing break except some intermittent minor annoyance with trivial bits of KDE. I'll live!
Black Arch
If its opensource i can definitely help you with the website
Also couldn't find any technical details on how this differs from other Arch distros and of course being new(er?) there's no Distrowatch entry.