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I love how 95% of the comments are about anything but the effing article.

Looking forward to a new VM manager. virt-manager is what I use and it's not very maintained: it still has issues on a HiDPI screen where scaling is all messed up. GNOME Boxes is both buggy and featureless in the usual GNOME sense, haven't found much use for it. I think all the focus has been on the virsh CLI and we haven't had a decent VM GUI in a while.

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The thing is that Gnome Boxes is user a lot and it's still buggy, the KDE one is going to be less used, it would really manage to be less buggy?, let's wait and see I guess

The main problem is the bugginess in combination with the featurelessness. Usually you can work around bugs in some way or another, but many of the bugs in Boxes seem to come from the fact that control is taken away from the user in the first place, and there's no way around it except touching the source code.

Ah yes, I'm so desensitized to the utter terrible quality of the virt* stack that I forgot that they merged "hidpi support" that was categorically worse than it being unscaled, and then just said "fuck it" for like a decade.

It's stunning that apparently not a single dev working on it has ever owned a hidpi screen apparently.

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