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The Future of GNOME Boxes (blogs.gnome.org)
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[-] bordam@feddit.it 3 points 3 days ago

Boxes is so goated. Every other VM software for linux seems unnecessarily complicated. We all know how a “good” VM is: hardware accelerated, optional host integration, optional GPU passthrough, easy way to connect to the network. This stuff should work OOTB, but it almost never works ootb in other software. Boxes is like UTM for linux

[-] thenextguy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

shifting to a Flatpak-first (and only) model.

Boo!

[-] bordam@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago

What’s wrong with that?

[-] bradboimler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Not OP but I'd rather not deal with multiple application distribution methods. I'd rather package Boxes myself (I use NixOS BTW) than use Flatpak.

[-] bordam@feddit.it 1 points 23 hours ago

I do understand, NixOS is soo good, I hope it will be possible for packagers to package it for distros, although not as easily as before

[-] thenextguy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I don't like flatpak and don't want it on my system.

[-] Dezorian@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Please elaborate why?

[-] thenextguy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

It doesn’t solve any problems that I have. It adds complexity.

[-] Dezorian@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah so just subjective info, thanks for sharing.

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Awesome, looking forward to trying the new version

[-] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Yes its needed. There are some serious bugs that needs ironing out.

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