O thanks! I needed glxgears equivalent for Wayland at some point

If there anything related to amdgpu in output of sudo dmesg?

I’ve got the same gpu and never seen this

Maybe it’s playing a video in the background while on the menu? Then it could be a problem with codecs. Have you tried GE-Proton by any chance? It has media-foundation codecs builtin

My bet is it tries to default to mode that your display doesn’t like, probably because of some wrong info in monitor’s EDID downloaded from the connector, but that’s just my guess.

Before booting, use key e on grub menu, locate line where there is initrd to pass boot parameters. You can force modes using video= parameter, and you can also replace/modify your EDID. Refer to section # Forcing modes and EDID on this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_mode_setting

These changes can also be achieved permanently by editing /etc/default/grub and regenerating its configuration, in case you use grub.

Easiest would be to have separate extra monitor temporarily or another computer to connect over SSH, but if those low “safe” graphics modes work, that can probably do also.

Screw distros, just use Arch

Interesting! The UI looks like it uses GTK for drawing widgets?

aT LEaZt iT wErKz

See that, GoG? This can be done, it doesn’t hurt and there are already tools that can be used to build it without all too much effort.

HARDER!

Yes, DO AS I SAY!

Depends on what is most desired. Plasma is the most complete and feature rich desktop experience on Linux at the moment. The most polished one? Certainly not.

They just whitelist few of the “supported”, operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.