Need help with making Linux my home - Lemmy.World
lemmy.world
I’m starting to get ads in my Windows notifications so it’s time I move. I got Manjaro KDE Endeavor OS 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 [https://pastebin.com/wKZrV04Y] demsg - https://pastebin.com/3rAPcAve [https://pastebin.com/3rAPcAve]

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

  • @pete_the_catEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they don’t care to.

    • CommunistEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      having had to update the kernel for elderly people, I understand why they wouldn’t, it’s sometimes a cycle where i’d have to remove it with pacman -Rdd, things normal people would never think of, all because they let the updates run but don’t manually switch out the kernel and years of that messes things up.

      And for what benefit?

      • @pete_the_catEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        It’s not just updating the kernel they don’t care about, it’s all updates. My dad is still stuck in the Windows mindset of “updates break things”.

        • CommunistEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I would feel similarly if I not only did have updates break things, because of manjaros fuckups, but also because I have to jump through hoops to update the kernel.