Update: installing Nobara which looks slick and doesn't have the resolution issue judging from the live disk. Consider this 'solved', thanks comrades n n.
I know nothing, someone gave me a script to rename files automatically yesterday and it took me longer than it took them to write it to figure out I needed python and to make a .py of it. I did figure it out, it's not their fault I know nothing, but that's my tech savvy. None.
I've learned desktop environments can be swapped on Linux, tested several on PopOS and I liked (in order) KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, the rest not at all, so if a distro has any fancy extras for their environment those are the ones I like but I've already learned you can swap if there's no distro specific extras or whatever.
I mainly plan on playing minecraft and then adding normal things I do day to day to see if I can ease myself into Linux via dual boot over time. Only usual day program I don't immediately see an alternative to is MusicBee which I use not for music but because it handles podcast RSS in a nice orderly fashion, will download to specified folders and have them in the app as well.
"Stick with PopOS" is a fine answer, I'm asking cause someone insinuated I made the wrong call in the mega and also I can't get it to let me pick the display resolution I have in windows - I may have done it wrong but I tried manually adding to xrandr and it seems to have just set it to 1080p instead when I tried to add 2160p 60hz where it only shows up to 30. Iunno.
It may just not be an option of the Linux AMD driver for my hardware or something. Anyway I spent 5 hours trying to fix it and give up, I want at least part of my weekend to not be clawing at a monolith of info I don't understand trying to make something work the way I think it should, lol.
I can prolly just get used to 1080p, it's only an issue at all for the browser really, text oddly big, feels weird.
I'd recommend you test Bazzite, Nobara and Solus and see which one you like best.
As far as I know screen resolution issues usually comes down to outdated drivers and/or kernel, at least for newer hardware. Using a distro that's very up-to-date usually solves that, any of the 3 ones I cited above are regularly up-to-date.
I'll briefly explain the differences between them.
Bazzite:
"Atomic" distro. Basically means it updates like Android, where it downloads an image of the system and uses that to update, instead of updating every single package individually when you try to update. It also means some parts of the system are read-only, making it impossible to mess with the more critical parts of the system, which helps a lot to mitigate user breakage and issues.It is Fedora based, comes with KDE Plasma and a lot of of useful gaming stuff pre-installed. Just use the software center to install anything you need. It has a forum and Discord server if you ever need help with something. Also, it auto-updates on the background by default and only applies the update once you restart you computer.
I use it daily since the last 3 months at least and has been the smoothest, most plug and play experience I ever had on Linux. It is also the only one of the 3 that I recommended that supports Secure Boot and easy TPM2 setup, both which I need because of an external drive with Win11 I barely use and because I encrypt my system.
Nobara:
It's not Atomic, so it updates "normally" and doesn't have the read-only protections.It is Fedora based and comes with KDE Plasma by default, but have options to use other Desktop Environments. There's a Discord server to ask for help if needed.
I used it for a year before I moved to Bazzite and it's pretty good. The only 2 caveats is that on major upgrades you need to upgrade through the terminal following specific instructions, and I had to manually intervene in the system a few times, which I only knew about because I was in GE's Discord, otherwise it would be a pain to find how to fix the issues I had.
Solus:
It's not Atomic, so it updates "normally" and doesn't have the read-only protections.It's not based on any other distro, it is it's own thing. Comes by default with Budgie but there's also a KDE Plasma option. There's a forum to ask for help if needed.
Used it for at least 4 or 5 years I think. Was the first Linux distro to actually get my attention and one of the best computer experiences I've ever had. I only ended abandoning it because of some issues with the team behind it that resulted in months of downtime without a single update, to the point I thought the distro was dead. It ended up coming back after some restructuring, but I never tried it again. I still recommend it because of how good it was, I found nearly everything I needed natively on their app store. The biggest problem other than the one I already talked about was outdated apps here and there.