Hey there, it's me Bryce. It has been absolutely freezing the past couple days where I live and across most of the United States I think. I have a friend that lives in Florida who sent me pictures and videos of it SNOWING on the beach, it was actually colder there than it was here (Utah, a place that is supposedly known for it's snow and stuff (I've barely seen any this winter)). Apparently there's some kind of storm going on or something but I haven't heard about it a lot, my friend used the word "polar vortex" which sounds crazy but it has been real cold.
It's the end of the week, I've been trying my best to read my Dracula stuff but again I am not a good reader, but I've been trying my best and I'm making slow progress, but slow progress is still progress. Today I finally started some writing, not any actual scripting but more so just starting to organize my thoughts and start outlining some things. I think I'm really excited for this video, I haven't found a whole lot of other people talking about the topic the way that I'm thinking about tackling it.
As for other updates, I've still been using Fedora, I haven't really had to boot into Windows at all since I finished moving all my files, and I've been looking into alternatives to the few things that I don't have access to. So far the only things are Ableton Live and Aurora, a d&d character builder and manager that I really like using. I'm sure I'll continue finding more that I haven't thought about yet. I'm not too upset about Ableton honestly, I don't use it nearly as much as I used to but I did pay for a license which was pretty pricey so that is kind of a bummer. I've seen some people claiming that they've been able to get it to work with Wine and it has a preset in the Bottles application, so I'll have to do some investigating into that. I'm also gonna look back into LMMS. I used LMMS a long time ago, in like 2017 or 2018 when I first started learning about music and production and stuff, I couldn't really figure it out though. But, now I know a lot more and I think it'll actually suit my needs pretty well. I also might just shrink my Windows partition to like 100 gigs or something just for Live if I can't get it working. We'll see I guess.
As for Aurora, I tried setting that up in Bottles and I couldn't get it to work at all. I've been looking for alternatives and I can't really find any, if any of you know about any good alternatives to that please lmk, I don't wanna have to resort back to d&d beyond :).
I've been trying to make sure that my graphics card is working properly since it's an Nvidia card and that comes with all the proprietary drivers and whatnot, I think it seems like it's working fine but my gaming performance has been kinda weird and stuttery, granted it could just be that it was like compiling shaders and it would've sped up had I given it a bit more time but I didn't spend too much time in anything. Today I tested it out with Sekiro and It seemed like it was pretty good, but I couldn't get my controller to work and it was really frustrating and annoying, but it seems like that's a universal problem with the game itself not Linux. Plus, I don't really play games on my laptop very often anyways I usually just play on my Steam Deck, so it's not a problem really.
But yeah other than that I've been really happy with my time in Fedora, if things continue going well I don't see myself leaving to be honest. I needa actually stress test it though I haven't been able to do that yet, but once my Dracula video is finished scripting I'll be able to get started with the recording and editing process in Davinci Resolve, and if it can do a good job at that then we should be good to go.
Anyways, yeah, I think that's pretty much my whole update for today. Lmk if there's any other software I should be looking into. See ya later.