Manjaro i3 slow boot on fresh install

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My fresh manjaro i3 installation is taking about 3 mins to boot, although the time shown on systemd-analyze is 34s. System is dual boot, and I have not considered grub time while recording time on stopwatch.

Following is the output from various commands

systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 5.205s (firmware) + 869ms (loader) + 1.775s (kernel) + 26.504s (userspace) = 34.355s 
graphical.target reached after 1.452s in userspace

systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @1.452s
└─multi-user.target @1.408s
  └─systemd-user-sessions.service @1.400s +7ms
    └─nss-user-lookup.target @1.455s

systemd-analyze blame
937ms apparmor.service
766ms dev-sda5.device
594ms tlp.service
587ms systemd-rfkill.service
446ms systemd-random-seed.service
176ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
161ms boot-efi.mount
148ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
100ms NetworkManager.service
 99ms user@1000.service
 95ms systemd-udevd.service
 94ms upower.service
 84ms systemd-journald.service
 84ms avahi-daemon.service
 76ms modprobe@drm.service
 68ms systemd-logind.service
 64ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
 57ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-C61B\x2d2608.service
 35ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
 35ms systemd-modules-load.service
 32ms modprobe@fuse.service
 30ms ufw.service
 25ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
 22ms bluetooth.service
 21ms swapfile.swap
 21ms maia-console@tty1.service
 17ms wpa_supplicant.service
 17ms tmp.mount
 16ms systemd-remount-fs.service
 15ms dev-hugepages.mount
 15ms dev-mqueue.mount
 14ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
 14ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
 13ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
 11ms alsa-restore.service
 11ms kmod-static-nodes.service
 11ms lightdm.service
 10ms modprobe@configfs.service
 10ms systemd-update-utmp.service
  9ms systemd-sysctl.service
  9ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
  8ms systemd-journal-flush.service
  7ms systemd-user-sessions.service
  3ms polkit.service
  3ms sys-kernel-config.mount

 inxi -Fzy
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.42-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: i3 4.19.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X541UAK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X541UAK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X541UAK.311 date: 03/14/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 25.1/23.8 Wh (105.7%) 
  volts: 10.8 min: 10.8 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-7100U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: 
  L2: 3 MiB 
  Speed: 704 MHz min/max: 400/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 704 2: 701 3: 703 
  4: 702 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.42-1-MANJARO running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 
  IF: enp2s0f2 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: ath9k 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 12.58 GiB (5.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda model: SATA SSD size: 223.57 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 120.48 GiB used: 12.56 GiB (10.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 24.7 MiB (25.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200 
Info:
  Processes: 153 Uptime: 20m Memory: 3.73 GiB used: 1.98 GiB (53.3%) 
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.04 

 cat /etc/default/grub | head -n6
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Manjaro"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

I have already disabled snapd, please help

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Why did you format your ESP in vfat? Usually FAT is recommended.

4 GiB is OK to run Manjaro, nevertheless I would recommend to check if you can eliminate some of your services during boot to avoid the system starts to swap. Also, check swappiness etc. to swap as late as possible.

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I didnt choose the settings during install, I simply installed manjaro on a partition without custom installation and these were the defaults I think. Rest there was an existing installation of windows so maybe windows created that efi partition.

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