Journey with Blender for Artists continues!
Ended up nabbing the blender kit add on, for some additional materials, though I also forgot about that asset tab, so there's that.
I can see lots of customizing workspaces and whatnot ahead of me.
...Okay, so even with a bunch of add-ons, when in just modeling mode, blender for artists is hitting about 2gb of RAM.
My desktop's fans aren't even kicking in, which is REALLY surprising.
Okay, I GUESS I'll have to look up how to actually texture.
I like my selecting faces and UV islands dammit.
(though I think I need to fix the settings on the UV packing as it's not allowing for spaces meaning there's texture leakage)