I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move.

I got Manjaro KDE Endeavor OS with KDE installed and got my most played non-steam games running through steam proton which is awesome.

But I have a few big issues.

  1. My network randomly drops. A restart fixes but I can’t even download Cyberpunk with my 1GB connection before it crashes. Klogs showed something about the network manager successfully shutting down but I can’t find much else.

  2. No Radeon software. I sometimes need to record clips/ stream so relive is nice but the biggest problem is my second 1080p monitor I Super Resolution to fit more programs on it. I can’t find a way to replicate that functionality. I also do not know how to control Radeon anti-lag, chill, Smart Memory Access, etc.

  3. HDR controls. Nothing in the display settings so I’m lost

  4. Alternative Software I haven’t spent a lot of time looking but things like wallpaper engine, rainmeter, powertoys.

If anyone ran into the same things and has solutions it’d make my day.

EDIT: With the overwhelming note from everyone here I distro-hopped to Endeavor OS with KDE (I liked that it let me install multiple DE’s) biggest loss is the App store but I was already using winget/choco on Windows so having to do pacman -S is pretty much the same. EDIT: Added KDEs Discover and its backend, seems to be alright.

installing plasma-wayland-session and switching to Wayland let me set display scale below 100% removing the biggest need for Radeon Software.

Network thing I’m still digging into but it persisted from the distro hop and I think is Steam-related because if I don’t launch steam it just doesn’t happen

EDIT2:

netmon logs - https://pastebin.com/wKZrV04Y demsg - https://pastebin.com/3rAPcAve

  • MentalEdge
    3•9 months ago

    Manjaro was my choice as well when I jumped ship a bit over a year ago. I do not plan on sticking with it. If you do, learn how to recover an unbootable system using timeshift. And set up timeshift, so if the worst happens, you can recover.

    1. I’d be looking at journalctl logs for the networking.

    2. I use OBS, as well as Spectacle and SimpleScreenRecorder. To fit more on a screen, you are likely looking for the desktop scaling setting in KDE. As for actually messing with the display resolution and such, I know how to do that on Nvidia, but not AMD. I know freesync should work easily, if you are running under wayland.

    3. HDR on linux is currently not a thing, AFAIK. There is work happening, but all the things that would be needed for it to work, weren’t complete last I checked.

    4. KDE has powerful wallpaper plugins, everything from shaders to some kind of wallpaper engine support. I just use a folder slideshow, with wallpaper blur when a window is focused. For rainmeter type stuff, look into KDE widgets.