# 1
Arch wiki. Definitely.
# 2 Can't comment
# 3 Yes always, give them some time, they're incredibly busy :)
# 4 I don't know if that's a good thing hahahaha but if you feel like breaking stuff you should simply uncomment the obarun testing repos in pacman.conf ;)
Generally speaking if you're just installing I wouldn't worry about boot.conf it'll generate just fine.
(Swap is disabled by default though)
I do realize we don't have a real documentation on each value on the wiki. Could be a nice addition.