The DaisyBlog

A few months ago, I got a new laptop to replace my $200 ASUS Vivobook that was falling apart. The old laptop gave way to my first experiences in Linux and general knowledge of computers/IT. I first installed Linux Mint Xfce, and I had that for a while, and I liked it a lot. Then the computer decided it had had enough of my tinkering so bit by bit it ate itself alive. So, I had decided to get a laptop that would last, and didn't have 4 gigs of ram and a celeron prosessor. I ended up getting an HP Victus on black friday with a RTX 4050, 16 gigs of ram, and a Ryzen 7 7000 series processor. In other words, I could run Cities: Skylines 2. At the time, I subconsciously thought that all Nvidia GPUS worked horribly with all Linux distros, which led me to just keep Microslop Windows and forget about Linux. But recently I decided to move back to Linux, so I did some research on Nvidia compatibility. So, I learned that most of the time, I should have no issues. I installed Linux Mint, and quickly realized that there were some issues. First off, Minecraft would refuse to use the dedicated graphics no matter what I tried, and Steam would be super laggy and CS2 would crash whenever I tried to load into a save. Long story short, after playing around with the drivers, linux kernel, and just about every button and switch aimlessly, I decided to just try something different. So I tried Pop_OS, which has much better Nvidia support. Functionally, it worked fine, but I learned that I really don't like the look of the GNOME desktop environment, and it was kinda a pain to do basic customization. I will say, CS2 was still kinda laggy and crashed a few times. So then I found Nobara, a Fedora based distro that offered great Nvidia support and a KDE specific edition, which is one of my favorite DE's because it's super simple to customize, and it looks great. On top of that, it runs Cities: Skylines 2 super smoothly. There was a lot more that happened, but I don't feel like typing that much. I actually learned a lot from this, like about desktop environments and Arch nerds on Reddit.

Making a website isn't that big of a process compared to what you might think. To make the actual code that makes the website have stuff, I just had to watch half of an HTML and CSS tutorial on Youtube, and the rest I figured out with google and the HTML and CSS syntax references from W3 Schools. Of Course there was some other stuff I had to do, but that's the gist of it. The hard part was figuring out how to host the website. I first was trying to figure out if there was a safe and not-time-consuming way to host it on my homelab, but that I could not find a suitible option with a YouTube tutorial. I then went looking for other means to host, and then I found that Cloudflare, where I host my domain, has a website hosting thing where I can upload the website directory and it does pretty much everything else for me.

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