New member. Testing the waters

Hi y’all. I’ve made my rounds on other distros over the years. Parking on distros that had good a/v selection of packages. Podcasting and music production, and being able to do some casual gaming is my realm. Currently I’m on OpenSuse. My main machine is currently a razer laptop with a 2060 gpu. First install attempt with OM was difficult. Finding the download link for the iso is atrocious for a first timer to the OM projects website. I made quick work of getting the iso to write and boot via usb once I tracked down links to Rock and Rolling. Then something not only in the live environment but also on the installed OS absolutely does not like using external monitors. I use 2 34in curved ultra wides. One is a dell with a built in kvm via USB C and the other is a Samsung via hdmi. Works flawless on Suse but on OM it won’t boot into the gui at all when they are plugged in. But once I plug them in after login, they continue to misbehave. Getting to the monitor settings to adjust is almost impossible because windows open off screen and it’s a jumbled mess. As of now, I don’t have time to fully troubleshoot. Maybe there’s a driver fix I missed?

I’m looking forward to future attempts at using OM because I’d rather support projects that focus on their ability to deliver product over politics. Being a Product Manager myself by day, I see the value in getting feedback from the user base. I hope this short review is helpful.

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Welcome! We are glad to see you here. I also came from openSUSE.

Please post questions in the Support section.

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Hi @DerFalk, welcome to OpenMandriva.
First of all, expect to encouter some issues with hybrid graphics and multi screen, consider to install Nvidia proprietary driver or Open Kernel module.
I run open kernel module for my laptop (Ryzen 5 3550h+GTX 1650 mobile/MaxQ), and for my part it runs better and more stable than proprietary with ROME Plasma and LXQt with X11 only, Wayland is unusable so far (SDDM + nVidia).
Feel free to seek help here.

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Thanks. I’ll have to take another stab at it soon. @WilsonPhillips, I’ll move any further question to support from here!

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Welcome!!!

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Welcome to OpenMandriva! Sorry to here you’re having troubles, but you’ll find that everyone here will do there best to help troubleshoot your issues.

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