Hey everyone~

Sorry for the bit of radio silence for the past...however long it's been ^^;

Anyway

Lately, I've been focused on getting a more-than-likely-necessary surgery going. So far, I just have a consultation appointment scheduled, meaning I won't know for sure if I'll end up needing said surgery. At this time, there's still unknowns, but at least there's some progress towards it.

I have also been dabbling with Linux Mint lately, thanks to a friend of mine sending me an old, school laptop pre-installed with it (as in he installed it before sending it to me). With how much AI is being forced into Windows lately (and I'm sure Mac similarly), I just want to try and get away from it all. And, so far, Mint has been great!

However, my workflow I've gotten used to for literal years might need to change, or I may have to keep on using Windows. Simply put: while Scrivener works just fine on Linux, I cannot open older .scrivx files without moving my whole writing archive into an unnecessary deep directory. This is because Scrivener has no Linux version, even though there was one in development years ago and then abandoned. So I'd have to use another program to install and launch Scrivener, thus meaning I can't open older files directly.

Now, I don't know if that made any sense at all, but with how janky opening specific files is gonna be...yeah, I may have to change things up. Considering all I mainly write are short stories and poems, LibreOffice should work just fine. It's the bigger projects I'm worried about; I have a couple compilations and *gasp* I might write a novel one of these days (spoiler: I probably won't).

Still, I do like the idea of having a "work" laptop. Limits distractions and puts me in the right headspace and all.


EDIT: After some fiddling around and help from the same friend, the aforementioned issue is no longer...an issue, lol.