Rose

I use Windows 11 as a desktop OS, mostly because it came preinstalled on the laptop, a bunch of apps run on it (Affinity, some photography stuff, Clip Studio Paint, and FL Studio mostly - and I’m aware Davinci Resolve has a linux port but installing it looked like a pain and a half), and for early part of its existence, I thought Windows 11 used to be kinda good actually. …Bunch of really silly stuff on Microsoft’s part has happened since, though, and it has made me very grumpy toward them and I think they’re really busy - what do the kid say these days? - losing the plot.

I already dialed back my Xbox subscription (guys, you don’t hike a price by over 100€ a year when the price was already damn high!), and already dialed back my Office subscription (yeah I don’t need Copilot, thanks) and will probably cancel it altogether next time the bill is due. …oh and my game purchases have mostly gone to Steam lately.

I use Linux (Debian variants) almost everywhere else, currently on a junk desktop PC (Debian/KDE) and Raspberry Pi 4, mostly for development stuff. I don’t think there’d be a huge pain in the neck in moving to Linux again, especially since I already use a lot of open source apps (and I’ve generally preferred software with sensible purchase terms, etc), but it’s not a huge pressing issue right now.

I use Krita, and a Wacom Intuos tablet. (Currently on Windows. …I have confirmed both 100% work on Linux tho.)

Here’s something I drew last week.

I never got around to really properly starting a game project I was making 9 years ago (gee, time flies) called The Great Adventure. In it you’d explore a tropical island! In the quit screen there was a message “the turtles bid you goodbye!”

Now the game was just a text-based thing written in Turbo Pascal for DOS, but this illustration here is what I had in mind.