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
Manjaro is fine for people that don't want to deal with CLI-ness of Arch. I have it installed on my parents computer.
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.
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.
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.
It's not that they can't, it's that they don't care to.
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?
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".
I would feel similarly if I not only did have updates break things, because of manjaros fuckups, but also because I have to jump through hoops to update the kernel.
It breaks if you install AUR packages because they keep their main repository behind Arch. It’s an awful distribution. They add a nice looking custom desktop but otherwise add no value. They are a bunch of amateur clowns too. There’s no good reason to use it over Endeavour if one is looking for an easier Arch.
I've never had any issues with it in the three years it's been installed on their PC. I'll check out Endeavor though.