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

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    For all those people saying to not use Manjaro if you want an alternative that just works try Mint or Fedora. Arch is great but requires a lot more work that you might not be interested in.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    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.

    Are you using Wi-Fi or Ethernet? What’s the output of inxi -Nx when you run it in a terminal? (it’s a cool system information tool, you can install it with a sudo pacman -S inxi)

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

    For super resolution you can use gamescope. Smart Memory Access should be called resizable BAR in your bios options.

  • bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Network: I constantly have problems with ipv6 connections to steam on Linux, try disabling ipv6. It’s counterintuitive to have ipv4 run faster and more stable than 6 but for whatever reason that’s a thing.

    Rainmeter: try conky.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    2·
    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.

    • Bonje@lemmy.worldOP
      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.

    • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      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.

  • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    Manjaro should literally never be used, it’s a terrible, terrible distro that just makes arch worse and provides little to no benefit.

    If you don’t want to use a TUI or touch a terminal, try endeavoros.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Manjaro is fine for people that don’t want to deal with CLI-ness of Arch. I have it installed on my parents computer.

      • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        No it is not, the simple fact that it updates the kernel with different version numbers means eventually you’ll have to manually intervene to update the kernel, this has happened MANY times to the elderly people I used to give it. And that’s just one of many things that manjaro has fucked up.

        Just use endeavoros for that usecase. There is never a good reason to use manjaro.

        • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I haven’t had an issue like that in the three years they’ve been using it. They don’t do the updates, I do when I see them every month or two.

          I’ve had way more issues with Arch and ZFS (even when using the DKMS package) than I ever had with Manjaro.

          • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The fact that they’re incapable of doing the kernel updates without you walking them through it proves the complexity and absurdity of manjaros system, the kernel should update along with everything else, as it does on arch, especially when certain packages depend on certain versions of the kernel, this is an especially big problem with nvidia GPU’s.

            the arch zfs setup is identical to the manjaro one.

              • Communist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                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_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  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”.