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.
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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.
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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.
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HDR controls. Nothing in the display settings so I'm lost
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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
Hmm... Manjaro has a history is breakage/SSL issues.
Try a copy of Debian KDE
Manjaro is a bit of a strange distro. It works on some setups and breaks on other. On my hp laptop, manjaro stood there without breaking for a year.
On my brother's Lenovo laptop, the distro craped itself while trying to update packages, after 2 months...
Both had aur enabled, but I had the most aur software installed. So no idea why it broke.
Since I installed fedora on his laptop, no issues for 2 years.
https://github.com/arindas/manjarno has a list of their prior adventures. EndeavorOS is the closest alternative AFAIK. But for now I guess that they are fine there. Just a heads up for OP to know to expect that something might be coming again and if they ever have a chance to choose another OS due to a fresh install that Manjaro isn't the most recommended distro out there.
The sentiment here seems to be to let Manjaro be and distro hop. I don't have any distro preference outside of a rolling release and a good out of box experience. My understanding is that with a rolling release, I get the most up-to-date I can be without fuffing about with kernel updates manually.
Try Endeavor then. Still rolling release, based on Arch, but with some additional tweaks. Less tweaks than Manjaro, so it tends to have less drama, and a good arch derivative.
Garuda is also an option if you want arch
I think stability is better for a new linux person.
Although, Linux Mint might be better if didn't need a moving wallpaper.
No it's not.
Stability is pretty useful.
Stable, unstable is terms relevant for enterprise and server, it just denote how rapid packages changes, its almost irrelevant for normal dektop usage. A new user having to deal with outdated packages is a pain in the ass and having a more up to date distro is no problem stability wise.