hello from my fancy new pc that i built myself!
it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops
the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great
new pc runs everspace 2 at max settings with only small hiccups. my old one could only really play it at low settings and even then the frames weren't consistent! oh man
tomorrow's task will be to put new drives in my now-previous pc and install linux on it, set it up for fileserver usage, and look into how best to access it from my current pc so i don't have to have a monitor and kb+m plugged in at all times. plain ole ssh/sftp is always an option of course but i'm thinking of trying out X forwarding, since i've never used it before and it seems cool and useful
(if anyone has advice for any part of that, please do hit me up; i'm decently familiar with linux in general but i've never used X or set up network file sharing on linux)