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Need help with making Linux my home (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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.
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.
HDR controls. Nothing in the display settings so I'm lost
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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For Radeon Software I found https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/amdgpu-installation on AMD's site but I would heavily recommend that you first try to find if your distro has already repackaged it somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, found this page, the commands don't work, I followed this in my search engine, and forums said the AMD open drivers are built into the kernel.

Now the proprietary ones (Mesa, OpenCL)? Dunno. I'm on Nobara because that stuff is set up to be one click.