Dundee Lad

The amazing David Hartley does it again. A breakdown of the recording of Bohemian Rhapsody, that features the stunning individual vocal tracks of Freddie, displaying fully that he truly was an incredible singer. It’s just over 21 minutes long but enthralling throughout.

So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been lazing about at home on holiday. To keep myself occupied I decided to give Linux another go, since I’d been hearing it has got so much better for serious gaming. After a lot of fucking about with various distros, I finally settled on RegataOS, which is a Brazilian distro that runs on OpenSUSE. And so far, the biggest criticism I have of it, is that unlike pretty much every other distro out there, this one has no support forum. The only official support seems to be on a fucking Telegram group. Uh, fuck that Russian shitshow. Anyway, the few issues I’ve had with it have been covered elsewhere on the net and all in all, it is running beautifully. So good, in fact, that I’ve hardly spent any time on Windows 11 this past fortnight.

Anyway, more later but for now I just want to point out one important difference between Linux and Windows; in Linux, USB actually works properly! Seriously, on Windows transferring a 2 GB file to a USB3 memory stick takes ages because it averages around 30 to 40 MB/s. That same file, on that same memory stick takes seconds on Linux because it is being transferred at an average of 130 MB/s. Good job, Microsoft.

Slowly but surely I will create a series about using Mod Organizer 2 for all your Fallout and Skyrim modding needs. Slowly. Starting…now.

The first thing you have to do is to always save any mod download in an appropriately named sub-folder/sub-directory. For example, a mod that is a Quest & Adventure should be saved in a folder of that title. Likewise, a bug fix should be in a folder named “Bug Fixes”. Now, this isn’t a hard and fast rule because sometimes you’ll download a mod and decide it needs to go into a differently named folder. Again, an example might be a patch for a custom follower that the creator uploaded to the Patches section of the Nexus but which I would save in the same sub-folder as the main files for the follower, so on my hard-drive that looks likes this: \SkyrimModding\FOLLOWERS & COMPANIONS\Remiel\

Now, this might seem a bit anal retentive and annoying but trust me on this, you do not want to lump every mod in the same folder because six months later you will regret that decision.