My onion plant is blooming! Not sure what to do with the flowers, maybe I'll harvest the seeds for future onions, but it's much more easier to just directly plant a bulb.

Also, plan for today is to try and get Bazzite multi-boot working on my laptop, with existing disros and Windows. This should be an interesting challenge, because Bazzite apparently doesn't play nice with other distros. Or I might even nuke my existing LUKS-encrypted distro and switch to Opal, to make the encryption transparent to all OSes and remove a layer of complexity, and maybe even switch to Hyprgreen as my primary and Bazzite for gaming...

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't tried growing onions from bulbs before. Isn't an onion already the bulb, so you plant one onion to get one onion? or is it like a seedling, where the nursery has planted the seeds then you buy them as bulbs when they have grown a bit?

And I don't think I've heard of Bazzite. What's the advantage over something like Nobara, which is another fedora-based gaming OS?

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can buy the seedlings or grow them from seeds, but it's much more easier to grow them from an existing onion bulb. Like if you left an onion alone in your pantry, after a while you'll it sprouting leaves, and then you can just plant it in a pot and it just grows on its own. Or you could just plant a regular onion bulb before it has sprouted leaves. They're like potatoes, super easy to grow and require little maintenance. I've been using my onion plant for it's leaves though and not the bulbs (so I don't need to buy spring onions from the supermarket). Planning to grow some potatoes as well this season.

Bazzite is an immutable OS, which uses atomic updates to update the whole system in one go as a single image (so instead of downloading a hundred different packages, it'll just download a single image). This makes updates faster and more reliable, plus it's super easy to rollback to a previous image (no need for snapshots), or you can even switch to a completely different ostree distro.

Practically speaking, the benefits compared to Nobara are faster updates (Nobara is still on F38 / kernel 6.5.9 for instance), and a Steam Deck/gaming interface so you can boot directly into Steam big picture mode with gamescope (if you chose the bazzite-deck variant instead of the desktop variant). There are also a bunch of other gaming tweaks present which aren't in Nobara, so in theory, Bazzite should be a better gaming experience.

My idea is to have it in a multi-boot setup so that I have a dedicated gaming OS that I can boot into, and with the immutable OS base, it'll lead to a console-like gaming experience where I don't have to worry about updates etc breaking things, or needing to tweak various things in my DE etc. So just power on my laptop, select Bazzite in my boot menu, click on a game and bam.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like if you left an onion alone in your pantry, after a while you’ll it sprouting leaves, and then you can just plant it in a pot and it just grows on its own.

What would the point of this be? Don't you only get one onion from your starting onion? Why not just eat the onion you had at the start?

My idea is to have it in a multi-boot setup so that I have a dedicated gaming OS that I can boot into, and with the immutable OS base, it’ll lead to a console-like gaming experience where I don’t have to worry about updates etc breaking things, or needing to tweak various things in my DE etc. So just power on my laptop, select Bazzite in my boot menu, click on a game and bam.

Interesting! I don't have anything duel booting, just a laptop with linux (currently Nobara) and windows on a "desktop" (I put it in quotes because it's plugged into the TV, it's not used as a desktop).

One day I see myself moving away from windows on the desktop. It's used for 4 things: running Excel, streaming netflix or whichever service we have that month, playing VR, and pancake "gaming" (I put it in quotes because I suck, I'm not a gamer, I'm a person who plays games 😄).

If I were to move away from Windows, a console like experience would be what I'm looking for in that machine. I might investigate Bazzite, though it would be good to know what your experience is like dual-booting it as that's how I'd likely start.

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would the point of this be? Don't you only get one onion from your starting onion? Why not just eat the onion you had at the start?

My goal isn't the onions themselves, but the leaves (aka spring onion) :) I'd love to have proper onion harvest as well, but I just don't have the space for that in my little balcony garden.

Perhaps one day, if I can get a fully remote job, I'll buy a proper house in the middle of nowhere and have a proper garden...

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see!

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did some gardening! It's not something that happens very often so it feels like a major achievement even though I just ripped stuff apart. And I was treated to a random 3-warbird flyover testing their smoke equipment, which was very cool but I wasn't quick enough getting my gloves off to snap a pic.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well done! We finally have a few things growing in our veggie garden.

The flyover sounds really cool, we occasionally get things like that but I don't think I've ever seen them testing smoke equipment.

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely one of the perks of living in Marlborough - the number of birds that come and practice for the big air shows.