DreamyRin

so! like the title says, what is your favorite genre for reading, and maybe what is a genre that you aren't so crazy about?

for me, I love fantasy, especially urban fantasy. it's tricky for me to find stuff I hit it off with all the way for that unfortunately, because I'm usually not interested in the romantic aspect being pushed so hard. but I love how authors will approach supernatural species and magic systems. plus, of course, I like to see character development.

I have been looking in YA because it's been a long time since I've seriously tried to read (since I was in high school, actually) and I'm really excited about trying a book called Legendborn. it looks amazing, and I've been told the magic system is excellent. admittedly, I haven't had the best luck with adult fiction just because, again, I don't enjoy most of the ways romance is written.

I don't really vibe with things like historical books, just because I don't consider myself great at history. I do enjoy learning things, but the ones that don't explain much leave me feeling lost. I also have that kind of issue with hard sci-fi, because even with explanations, that one can leave me feeling like I'm not understanding.

in the interest of throwing some positivity around, how has joy found you recently?

I'm not going to put a time limit on "recently." I personally have been struggling, so I thought it would be nice to see some other people's enjoyment of things.

for me, I've got a couple small things. it's nice out, finally, so I've started taking walks again (I like to go for about three miles at a time) with music to listen to and I'll chat with my friends too. additionally, I've handwritten some of my friends and my partner letters, with stickers inside for them to have. I'm really looking forward to them getting them.

lastly, I know I've posted before on things like linux and selfhosting, and I've been doing more with that. nothing too spectacular, but I recently spun up a Ghost blog container... that only took me 5 hours to troubleshoot, hahaha. I think it's my setup, but I'm just glad I did it. I use it as a private journal that my partner reads and comments on. I'm hoping to try again with some other services, like Calibre Web Automated and a bit of the *Arr suite.

I didn't realize this community existed and posted my other thread about linux distros in another community, so I'll try rectifying that here.

I'm trying to learn as much about linux as a desktop system as I can before I dive in to installing a distro on my computer. I do have a tiny bit of familiarity with the terminal from having servers running Debian, but those I get a lot of help with. the distro I've chosen is Bazzite, which is based(?) on Fedora if I recall right. I liked the stuff it comes with (I love video games) built in and I like the idea of the atomic desktop setup.

so, what are your tips and tricks for a new linux user? what about outside resources? I've been doing as much digging for articles and videos as I can, but I thought asking the community might be a good idea too. I'm trying to compile these resources for myself and my partner, so that we have stuff to learn from and reference.

as a final question, what got you into using linux over windows or mac?

thanks in advance!