Hey, it's me Bryce

I've been thinking and wanting to start dualbooting linux on my main laptop and pc for a while now, but I've been a little scared so I put it off for a long time. Then, yesterday (January 17th) I just decided to go for it. It was a little scary, my laptop that I do everything on is a Surface Laptop Studio with an i7 CPU, rtx 3050ti gpu, 32 gigs of ram and 1tb ssd storage. It's not like amazingly powerful but it does everything I want it to do amazingly well, but since it's a Microsoft product running anything but windows 11 just feels kind of weird I guess?

I knew there'd be a lot of tinkering and setup I'd have to do, there's a project dedicated to running and optimizing the way that linux runs on surface devices just because it's kinda weird and tricky to do. I had to install a new kernel so that the touchscreen and pen input would work, and worse than that to get the touchpad to work properly, but now that I've done that and set it up well it works pretty much perfect and great I love it.

I've never used Fedora before but it's just one of the distros that is officially supported by the custom surface kernel or whatever, and I've been wanting to try a vanilla gnome experience, i'm not too fond of how they have it set up on Ubuntu, but so far I've been pretty fond of this actually it's nice. I also figured it would be good because Nick from the linux experiment on youtube says that it's his daily driver so it's gotta be good right?

I've slowly been installing all my apps and stuff to see how it runs and if I end up really liking the way that my workflow works on Fedora, I fully intend on just wiping my windows partition and using this instead full time. I tried installing Davinci Resolve but it was having some kind of issue, I'm sure I can fix it but I also wanted to give kdenlive a try so I'll just try and go fix it after I play around with that.

I'm gonna have to try out some other DAW's since Ableton Live is not available on Linux. I've heard good things about Bitwig studio, which is made by ex Live devs so that'll probably be my go to, but I might also try some Foss options such as LMMS for a bit we'll see. I don't really use Ableton as often as I used to so it's not like a huge priority for me at the moment.

The only other thing that I'm kind of worried about is that I use Onedrive for literally anything (barf I know) and using that on Linux is a bit weird. I've been intending on setting up my own nextcloud cloud storage but I just don't think that's like a viable option for me right now, I might look into other options like Pcloud, I like that they have a one time payment option that's kinda sick.

1/26/2025 For the moment I've given up on dualbooting Fedora, it just simply doesn't work very well on my hardware, there's a lot of conflicting issues and stuff between the custom surface kernel and the drivers for some of the hardware, I just couldn't get thigns to run properly. So for now, I'm just gonna stick with Windows (I'm not super happy about it though), it's just better supported by Microsoft manufactured. Who knew?

Today is the day after I uploaded my Fediverse video, it's a Saturday and I don't have much going on so I think I'll start all my research for my Dracula / Nosferatu video. That involves watching a lot of movies, some of which I have seen before and some of which I haven't, and I'm pretty excited. I need to make a definitive list of all the things that I want to watch, or read I guess. So far all I have is:

• Nosferatu - Robert Eggers*
• Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror - F.W Murnau*
• Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog*
• Bram Stoker's Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola*
• Dracula - Tod Browning and Karl Freund*
• Dracula (the original novel) - Bram Stoker
• Dracula: A Graphic Novel - Bram Stoker and Matt Pagett*

And for now that's about it. There are so many different adaptations and things that I'm probably missing so maybe I'll end up adding more to this list but I guess we'll see what happens. I'll be checking things off as I do them.

The night that I made that list and put it on my site (? I think? maybe it was a day or two after that, I haven't really been keeping track) I went to the library, read the Matt Pagett Graphic Novel (which I did not like btw, and I don't seem to be alone in that), checked out a copy of the Dracula film with Bela Lugosi, and then watched the the Werner Herzog film with my wife.

I thought it was just okay? I know a lot of people really really like that one and even think it's their favorite adaptation of the Dracula story, and I don't blame them for that I see the appeal, but I thought it was kind of boring and it felt really long. Granted, the film as a whole felt like a fine length in my opinion, but I just feel like some individual shots and scenes went a bit long. It was really beautiful to look at, I like how it felt very saturated all the colors were very vibrant which was a really interesting choice that I think worked pretty well.

I borrowed a copy of the original novel from my sister in law a loooong time ago, like before I even planned on making this video. I just kind of wanted to read it. I've been making very slow progress, because I am just not a good reader, and when you combine that with the like old english and long drawn out ways of going about things that the novel tends to do sometimes, I just find it kind of difficult to read it. In fact, after I read the first two chapters I kind of just stopped for a really long time, but I picked it up again this past Monday while babysitting my niece, and made quite a bit of progress in it. I think it's gotten easier now that I'm through a lot of the opening exposition stuff.

I plan on watching the Bela Lugosi and Coppola films sometime during this week, I haven't had a chance to yet because my Monday and Tuesday were pretty busy, and I don't think I will today either, but we'll have to see what tomorrow and Friday bring.

I've watched all the movies I planned on watching and I've started actually writing my script. A first draft anyways. I've been kind of toying with what I want to tackle specifically and I think it'll just be about the different themes from the original novel, how they're tackled in each film, and what differentiates the "Nosferatu" and the "Dracula" name because I think there's a lot to cover there. I'm hoping I'll have it uploaded before the end of this month.