Way too big of a price to pay.

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I still don't get what's so weird?

Great comment, I've decided to go for Arch and I know that it might come with a lot of tinkering and work. Thanks for the tips and encouragement!

Good advice to be honest. Luckily I have a lot of patience so I think I should be fine in the end.

Manjaro comes with a lot of bloat that I don't want on my system, that's why Arch sounds so interesting to me.

No, I am not going to use RAID. The only reason I have two SSDs is just for the extra space for games and all my projects I work on. Drive encryption is not something I have thought about, not sure if it's beneficial for me.

I will also be doing a lot of gaming and after watching and reading about Linux gaming, it seems you will generally lose about 10% FPS compared to windows. I also heard that Arch is supposed to be one of the better distros for gaming.

I've tried installing Arch on a virtual machine before, so I am not completely new to it I suppose. I think I will be fine with the added complexity of Arch. Good advice to check out the Arch forums before updating, thanks!

Arch Linux with KDE Plasma.

Can you give some examples on how it's high maintenance? I am not afraid of tinkering with the computer to get what I want.
The reason I am interested in Arch Linux is because it's not bloated and I have full control over what I will have installed on my system.