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
I don't fully understand how upscaling low resolution would give better readability for many small windows on the same screen? I know Nvidia's DLSS but isn't that made for running games at a small resolution and stretching/upscaling that to fit a far bigger monitor?
Gotcha, DLSS/Super Resolution just don't seem to fit the OP's question at all though. The monitor scaling I replied with would allow to fit more windows on the monitor (though they will appear smaller as they'll have less real screen space while having their old virtual screen space). I don't understand at all how DLSS/Super Resolution would be related to that.
Idk if they mean Virtual Super Resolution, which makes a 1080p monitor act like a 4k monitor, instead of Radeon Super Resolution which is the FSR upscaler for upscaling lower res games.