HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

Hardware and OS

PC Specs:

• GPU: GeForce RTX 4060 TI
• RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 MHz (2x16GB)
• SSD: Kingston 1TB SSD

I also use an old Microsoft Surface 2 Laptop which works great with linux

Other Hardware:

• Desk: This standing desk on Amazon (I got it on sale for $130)
• Mic: an Old Blue Yeti Snowball
• Drawing Tablet: XP-PEN DECO 01 V3
• 3D Printer: Bambu Lab A1 Mini (Honestly probably the best budget one out there right now)
• Piano: I got a used Roland Keyboard from Long & McQuade, they're such a good music store

Operating System:

• PC: Fedora KDE Plasma
• Laptop: Fedora Workstation (Gnome)

Software:

• Music: "Legit" FL Studio
• Drawing/Animation: Krita, Libresprite (pixel art), paint.net for simple stuff
• 3D modelling: OnShape for Percise models, and Blender for Artistic Models
• Gamedev: Godot (I haven't really learned how to use it yet lol)
• Recording: OBS (really useful for indirectly downloading videos you normally can't)
• Music & Video: VLC Player
• Notes: Obsidian (amazing)
• Documents: ONLYOFFICE (it's so good)

Misc

• Storage: an old 1tb HDD in a UGREEN enclosure (I wanna get a 2 bay NAS with 12tb drives using RAID 1 though)

Tips & Tricks

Youtube Downloader:

• If you use Youtube music, or just Regular Youtube, but you want to download all your files as mp4s, you can use yt-dlp, which you can install with a simple download command on linux.

Laptop touchscreen (Microsoft Surface)

• If you happen to have linux on a Microsoft surface that has a touchscreen, you may notice that it doesn't work when you install linux on there. the fix for this is a project called Linux Surface. If you're able to follow the slightly confusing setup instructions, then touchscreen should work perfectly, which is just so cool that I can take something that doesn't work at all, and install a community made program to fix it, for FREE!