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

  • 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.