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

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Regarding Super Resolution: there’s this guide that should work. Anti-lag and all the other features weren’t ported to Linux by AMD. You can try looking for scripts and tools that replicate their effects, but the experience won’t be as good as on Windows.

    Edit: you can get FSR in most games by using Valve’s gamescope. To use it, alter the command line for your games to make them look like this: gamescope -w 1920 -h 1080 -W 3440 -H 1440 -b -- %command% (this runs the game at 1080p and upscales the output to 4k using RSR). There are some keyboard shortcuts to configure the running tool, but no GUI settings.

    Regarding HDR: that doesn’t work in Linux, sorry. KDE 6 will probably support basic HDR when it comes out. System76 is also working on a custom GUI that will have HDR support but that too is incomplete.

    As for software: there’s tons out there, I don’t know what you’re interested in. I recommend taking a look at KDE Connect, that’s a very good feature that Windows lacked for years. I personally like Mission Center as a task manager clone.