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

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
    3•1 year ago

    Just adding to the chorus of users who had issues with Manjaro. It’s a great distro, but sometimes quite frustrating, especially if you’re new.

    I switched to Fedora, which is really nice. It’s Gnome, but there’s probably a KDE spin too. No big issues so far, and it’s been almost a year. One small issue is getting video codecs installed. Be sure to select third party repos at install, then look for “gstreamer” in the software app and install all the plugin packages.

    • BonjeOP
      2•1 year ago

      I’ve had a good experience with it the couple of times I used it in the past. I tried Rhino before eventually settling on manjaro as I quite like rolling updates, makes it simple for my monkey brain.

    • CommunistEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      If you only consider manjaro the things they put ontop of arch, it’s actually an awful distro.

      Everything they added makes arch worse.