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Basic manual formatting and installation:
1. One Primary partition, formatted to Ext4 FS (File System) to hold the ‘root’ system - ‘/’ - 30 Gb or 30720 Mib should be more than adequate.
2. An extended partition after the Primary, at the END of which you create a ‘swap area’ equivalent to double the amount of Physical Memory you have installed in your machine. No need to specify a file system as due to the very nature of creating a ‘swap area’ it knows what to do.
3. Whatever is left at the start of the Extended partition, format to Ext4, and mark it as ‘/home’ - this is where all your Personal Files (and other users ‘/home’ folders) will reside, including any Windows applications in the hidden ‘.wine’ folder.
4. If you are installing to a complex OS structure, you may need to create a ‘/boot’ partition of 512 Mb BEFORE the ‘/’ partition – as this is where you will store GRUB if you intend to use the ‘non-traditional method’ using EasyBCD (the free one) from NeoSmart Technologies (https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/). It (‘/boot’) is also useful on Asus eeePc’s that had the 10 Gb split SSD where Windows could not be put on the larger part – well you can with GNU/Linux!