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

  • meow
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    1 year ago

    First of all: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

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

    HDR is still WIP.

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

    Wallpaper Engine: Not a perfect replacement, but you can set a gif as a Wallpaper in Plasma. If that isn’t enough, there are alternatives (I don’t know what they can do).

    Rainmeter: Also not a perfect replacement, but Plasma Widgets should at least provide the functionality.

    PowerToys: Always on Top, Awake, Color Picker, & Run already have equivalent features in Plasma. File Explorer add-ons, File Locksmith, Hosts file editor, & Registry Preview aren’t needed because Linux. The others have replacements on a case-by-case basis, check the “Get More (whatever)” in the settings of relevant KDE apps.