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
    2·
    1 year ago

    DLSS and Super Resolution do the same thing, basically. AMD has a tool on Windows that will apply their upscaling tech on basically any game, even if it doesn’t support FSR natively. The Steam Deck has the same feature.

    It renders a game at a low resolution so you get more FPS. Then it upscales the game to full resolution using some dark AI magic. In an ideal setup, the OS doesn’t even know the resolution has been altered in any way (like it would with xrandr, for example).

    • DrJaska@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      the biggest problem is my second 1080p monitor I Super Resolution to fit more programs on it.

      Gotcha, DLSS/Super Resolution just don’t seem to fit the OP’s question at all though. The monitor scaling I replied with would allow to fit more windows on the monitor (though they will appear smaller as they’ll have less real screen space while having their old virtual screen space). I don’t understand at all how DLSS/Super Resolution would be related to that.

      • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        Idk if they mean Virtual Super Resolution, which makes a 1080p monitor act like a 4k monitor, instead of Radeon Super Resolution which is the FSR upscaler for upscaling lower res games.

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

        I don’t think what OP is doing is a typical use case for super resolution, but I suppose downscaling should work just as well as upscaling. The AI aspect will probably fix up a lot of artifacts, as if it’s fixing corrupted textures in video games.

        One advantage of super resolution in this instance would probably be improved legibility and reduced system load. I don’t think your solution will be as robust as OP is used to but I suppose it’ll work quite well for their requirements.

        Personally, I would set a lower scaling factor (0.75 or so) or switch to using virtual desktops, but everyone has their preferred workflows I suppose.