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  • Wayland is still incomplete, but that is besides the point I was making. X is still not dead, even living within XWayland, within Wayland. X11 is just one implementation of the X Protocol and XWayland is a new implementation.

    Wayland itself is functional and working, just not 100% compatible to X11. The same could be said about X11, it would be nice if they could get some basic functionality working right; but they can’t, and that is why we need to replace it with something more modern and better. I think Wayland is working on a solution for restoring window position and size.

    When X was created, there was no compatibility needed. Wayland on the other hand is in a different position, where it needs to innovate, make it more secure and keep as much as possible compatibility to X11, DEs and window managers. It’s just unfair to just say Wayland would not have basic functionality working. It also depends on the desktop environments and GNOME is often to blame for.





  • It’s probably just a normal button that is hardcoded to run a specific AI software that is installed on your system (as it is indicated by “Launches AI Prompt Builder”). Just a guess. There is no need for a dedicated button, as any extra button could be configured to do the same.

    Only people with an artificial brain will fall for this.


  • Right: https://virt-manager.org/

    One can close the window that shows the virtual machine, and it would still run in the background. Qemu+Kvm is not the only way to use Virtual Machines with virt-manager, one can also use LXC or Xen as its Hypervisor. I’m relatively new to the concept of Kvm and it was a little bit confusing first.

    First a connection to a Hypervisor needs to be established (here Qemu+Kvm). I think that means a server is running in the background, correct me if I’m wrong. Then one can install or run a virtual machine with the connection. Here is a screenshot on my current setup (I tried to create an AppImage, long story) and added a few useless red arrows. The QEMU/KVM connection is automatically connected at start (configurable). Once a virtual machine is running, you have to click “Open” to show the window of the VM.


  • Nobody is mad at this thread. My reply has valid points and is trying to help the guy asking this question. The question can’t be answered in a straightforward manner as he wants it to be. Therefore I recommend him to specify some things, so we can help him better find the right distribution.

    I recommend to learn what a rolling release, a LTS, the difference between stable and unstable are. In example LTS means holding back lot of packages, but the minor or security updates might be quick. Feature updates are often slower, but that does not mean the updates on the distribution are slow. Let’s take distributions with KDE in example. Some are still on version 5, because of LTS, but the updates might be quick. Others might have a newer version of KDE 6, but the updates itself might be often lagging behind official releases, because they have to make lot of changes.

    Therefore its important to specify what he wants to find, so we can help him better. Not mad, just trying to help. Don’t make this awkward.



  • Flathub is not the entirety of Free World, just a little small slice of the pie. You can say Flathub is quite centralized. But our Free World have so much more. Every country will have a certain focus of what is freely available. It’s an optional server and package format. You are free to install it or use another free package. Nothing crazy here.



  • I had similar thoughts, because I would disable it probably. But that does not change the fact (and my previous comment) that this is impressive.

    Env Vars: What would make sense to me is a global variable the project checks and runs standard text or effects based on the global environmental variable. This way we could just set a single env var in the shell and have it automatically set off (or on for specific apps only) without configurations and commandline options for many programs.