I would say just food maybe 800-1000 swiss francs. And then 400 for other necessities like toilet paper, trash bags etc.
Tbf that went down in the last 2-3 months since I stopped eating dinner for 5-7 days a week. No, not to save money, I am intermittent fasting so I only eat breakfast and lunch. More lunch though. So I guess most money now goes towards dinner for my partner. So we spend maybe 600-800 now.
They did not replace repos, they exit in addition to the normal Arch repos, you can install any package from these repos if you want.
How does Cachy not work? How do you even use it in the same sentence as Manjaro? Cachy is just Arch + some optimized packages provided by their repos. You can theoretically migrate from pure Arch to Cachy by adding their repos and even the other way around.
Intermittent fasting costs nothing but willpower (which for some can be an issue I know) and easily beats that quote.
It was mostly practical effects afaik: https://www.thewrap.com/south-park-how-naked-trump-scene-was-created-not-ai/#:~:text=Many assumed after,was it practically