Does the 1~2 week delay improve Manjaro stability over Arch?
I run Manjaro on the computer I use 99.9% of the time. It's been rock stable but there have been a few issues, over the years. I've been forced to reinstall on four occasions, since 2017. I expect it would have been more but I stopped taking updates until a week or two after they are offered. Every issue could have been handled with timeshift but I only started running timeshift about 6 months ago.
I also have an Arch laptop that I use a few times per year. It's been very stable but it goes for weeks without being used. I have no way to know how many problems it would have had if I used it every day.
Any thoughts on which is more stable? Maybe it doesn't matter that much, with snappy and timeshift?
I personally have never actually used Manjaro on my own computers, but my friend had one for the longest time and had way more bugs and issues in it than I have had from my vanilla Arch, and I update almost daily. I've been using this install for about a year now and only reinstalled my previous copy of Arch because I wanted to completely clear my SSD, and I was using it for the two years before that.
Same, I've never reinstalled Arch for any reason other than building a new computer or due to hardware failure.