One other thing i’d like to mention is, a few weeks ago my portable laptop died and stopped booting. Luckily, i was able to get an M.2 SSD card reader and used dd to transfer my arch linux install to the SSD of the replacement laptop, which is ASUS (while original was Lenovo).
Despite the hardware differences, i was able to successfully boot into my arch install and got fully up and running within a day. All i had to do was reconfigure the fstab and some bootloader configs, and some keyboard shortcuts.
So if I ever need to switch to a new computer again, now I know I dont even need to start from scratch on every machine. Kinda awesome.
Therefore, i dont need Manjaro to get me up and running quicker, since I can just copy my custom install of arch.