I can only talk from my “lived experience”, but Manjaro consistently beats any other OS memory usage (in similar conditions) by 20% or more.
One of my devices is a 2GB RAM 2-in-1, so memory management is quite important. I have tried several distros there, but none gives me the usability (i.e. running Gnome, which has the touchscreen capabilities I’m looking for) and performance Manjaro does.
Here’s HTOP showing manjaro running under 700 MB of RAM.
