Various dotfiles deployed using GNU Stow.
I was seeing a lot of tearing, especially when watching videos in mpv. Using compton fixes this. On Mint I was using a fork from yshui as the original is no longer maintained. I cloned master and built and installed it. On Arch I'm just using compton from Community.
No tearing, don't need compton.
sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/pacman_update
Add:
jeff elbow = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/pacman -Sy