honestly, cant say.... I dropped plasma 4 before in favor with cinnamon and went back to plasma 5 and was surprised how plasma 5 got snappier than ever...
However, for a year already, I went to a full WM (hyprland) but still keep plasma on my system..
If youre after Arch based, I highly suggest EndeavourOS over Manjaro.
Manjaro is great if you dont plan to add packages outside Manjaro Repo like the AUR.
But Manjaro just breaks AUR packages since Manjaro style is to held the updates, and some AUR depends on newer depencies / packages, and...
Its waybar
Its alot easier to move it around.. be it on top side, bottom, left or combination
Plus, I have tried ewww before and its too complicated for me to understand lmao
Thanks... actually this was only given to me like few months ago by wife's cousin... while organizing my computer room, saw this. Put my spare nvme and add my old 500gb HDD... and been using it since then... I barely use my laptop and desktop these days mainly because I like the silence of it.. :)