[z3ratul163071]

> needing to spend hours installing and configuring Arch

In my experience the diff from cold install Arch vs Manjaro is certanly not "hours". You need maybe 30 min to bootstrap Arch and once you have pacman you quickly have DE and you are practically there.

[lucasoshiro]

> You need maybe 30 min to bootstrap Arch

If you know exactly what you're doing, ok, but why should I remember something that I'll do few times and that can be done in a nice GUI installer?

I have installed Arch in VMs for several reasons and once I installed Arch in my computer because "why not?". I spent some hours (yes, hours) installing arch, configuring post-install stuff, trying to figure out why my wi-fi wasn't working and installing basic stuff (Firefox, KDE apps, Emacs, etc). When I finished, I looked to it and thought "well, after all this time what I have here is a Manjaro".

[wyclif]

I find that people tend to overestimate how long it takes to install Arch just because it doesn't have an installer by default. I've seen people with very little Linux experience get it up and running in less than 30 minutes.