Bazzite Bazzite Bazzite!

I was at the same point a while ago.

Everything I touch breaks, and I also had enough of my system breaking because updating with an unstable power grid is like playing russian roulette.

I turned to Fedora Silverblue first, then rebased to uBlue. Aurora first, and then Bazzite. Silverblue feels exactly as the regular variant, Aurora is great for desktop use, and for my gaming PC, Bazzite is fucking great. It just works.

It comes with a lot of tweaks and super many small additions that just make your life easier, especially for gaming.

Updates just happen in the background when there’s nothing better to do and get applied to the next boot image. And in case something doesn’t work as expected, you can always go back in time.

You can also customise it almost/ just as much as regular distros, but it isn’t quite as easy if you want to customise A LOT (e.g. using TWMs).

I didn’t notice huge performance boosts tho, it just comes with more tools ootb, for example to make your GPU more silent when idle.

As said, Bazzite is based on Fedora, so you always get new great modern stuff, at the same time as the other Fedora users do.

Hi, fellow salad-non-enjoyer 😁

While I don’t have much against leafy salad, I still grow some. Why?

It is very low demanding, and I like to grow it rather passively with Kratky, for example with my army of used wine bottles or other small containers.

They fit nicely in spaces nothing else fits, but I would never waste my precious balcony space for something like salad.

But here are a few ideas. Most work for active systems and can be treated as annuals, but those with * do better in LECA and over longer periods:

• Pak choi
• Garlic/ chives/ cnions/ spring onions
• Parsley
• Basil
• Mint, especially varieties like strawberry mint*
• Lemon balm*
• Strawberries*
• Ginger, Tumeric*
• Small tomatoe or chili varieties (e.g. bottle tomatoes or bottle chilis).

I grow herbs and ginger next to my window, and it works great! Even without grow light, just in LECA pots!

If you are fancy, you can also try to grow saffron, horse radish or wasabi.

Or, just for fun, as decoration, carnivorous plants, but without fertilizer in your “nutrient” “solution” (aka. pure water).

Yeah, actually I should have done that a month earlier.

In my web research I found out, that they are anti-cyclic, so they bloom in late fall/ early winter, and hibernate in spring and summer. During the “hibernation”, they grow like grass and store the power in their bulbs/ rhizome.

And exactly those bulbs I bought. 30 pcs for 10€ in my local garden center.

With a bit of luck, a few of them might bloom in a few days or weeks, but I think they will just look boring the next 10 months…

But I think that especially the fact that they are passive makes them cool. That way they could make it great in my indoor house plants or perennial fruits on my balcony!

Tatsächlich sind “Zauberpilze” (ich baue wirklich keine an) eher dafür bekannt, Scheiße oder andere nährstoffreiche Substrate zu fressen.

Ich züchte dafür aber Gourmetpilze (z.B. Lions Mane, Shiitake, Zitronenseitling, usw.), und Vitalpilze (z.B. Reishi). Bei denen hab ich deinen Tipp tatsächlich schon probiert, selten so gesunde Erde gehabt!

Hab dazu extra mal vor nem halben Jahr oder so nen Post gemacht :)

Die meisten (Endo-)Mykorrhizapilze sind sog. “Filamentpilze”, also das, was auf deinem Brot wächst und so lustig flauschig ist 🥺 (Aka. Schimmel, z.B. Trichoderma sp.).

Die bekannteren Pilze, also das, was sich die meisten unter “Pilz” vorstellen, und was du im Wald findest, wie z.B. Fliegenpilze oder Steinpilze, brauchen eher Bäume als Freunde :D

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Danke euch für Kommen zu meinem TED-Gespräch!

Bin ich eher nicht sooo der riesen Fan von tbh.

Ich habe in der Vergangenheit einige deutschsprachige Communities gegründet und gemerkt, dass man, in Summe, auf einer Nischenplattform (Lemmy/ Fediverse) in Kombination mit einem Nischenthema (in dem Fall Solarpunk) niemanden erreicht.

Deshalb bin ich dazu übergegangen, den Großteil auf Englisch zu machen, ansonsten ist es verlorene Liebesmühe.

Man kann aber, so weit ich weiß, seine Sprachpräferenzen im Profil angeben. Dann werden deutsche Posts, wenn man Englischsprechender ist, ausgeblendet und nur Deutschen angezeigt.

You can, if you want. Just do it with some spare plants, ideally from cuttings.

You can pour a few drops of hydrogen peroxide every few days into the jar, that will supply them with oxygen.

Or, you can go with Kratky bottles if you want the “plants in water”-look :)

I can share a few pictures if you’re interested 🙃

This likely won’t work well long term.

Roots need a lot of oxygen, and as the author already stated, the water can get stale quickly. In my opinion, changing the nutrient solution “every few weeks” is nearly not enough. For pothos and the others mentioned this might work for some time, but even there, aeration is needed.

Another problem is algae growth. I tried using transparent glass bottles a while ago, and after just a few days, the whole bottle and roots were coated in green sludge, killing the plant.

There are a few great solutions for those problems. You absolutely can (and maybe even should) use hydroponic systems indoors.
My two favourite ones for that are Kratky and expended clay bubbles. Both are really great!

I’ve created a new community called !c/hydroponics. I’ll post those pictures there :)

I’ve jumped head first into hydroponics this year, and the last few weeks and months went into perfecting my balcony.

For the minimal space I’ve got, I have a lot of plants.
For those, I tried to make mostly passive and simple setups, so no spray towers or stuff.

I can post a few pictures if someone is interested, and I’ll probably create a new community too for that wonderful topic.

I barely need to use water, my plants are almost pest free outdoors, and they grow twice as fast and big compared to soil. Fits perfectly into this instance!

I would recommend Bazzite or Aurora/ Bluefin. Bluefin is Gnome, and Aurora is KDE.

Both Bazzite and Bluefin are very similar. Bazzite is gaming focused, and the other one is more general purpose, but you can use them interchangeably and also rebase from one to the other.

They are the poster childs of the uBlue project, which uses, modifies and redistributes Fedora Silverblue images.

They both are part of the Fedora Atomic family, which makes them nearly indestructible, convenient and secure.

They focus a lot on containerised workflows, e.g. Distrobox, Flatpak, Homebrew, and, as you mentioned, Nix. They all come pre-installed, and if they don’t work ootb (e.g. Nix), they are just one ujust command away.

I have used both over the past year and I couldn’t be more happy. Give them a try!

Go with Bazzite instead.

The Nvidia drivers come pre-bundled with your install and are baked into the image itself.
The good thing is, they won’t break, and if they should, you can just roll back to yesterday’s image by just rebooting. It’s extremely reliable and lets you just dive into your optimal gaming experience straight away.

Don’t use Manjaro. The dev team is very sketchy and it’s a very unreliable distro. If you really want Arch, for whatever reason, use EndeavourOS. I personally don’t like the rolling release model and find Fedora (Bazzite) just right. If I need something from the AUR, then I use Distrobox.

PopOS is too old for me, and isn’t evolving at all right now. I would skip it until Cosmic is ready.