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Boxes, KVM and Libadapta...

Boxes and KVM

I’ve recently removed and converted some VMs from VirtualBox to gnome-boxes and the .qcow2 format. It went well. The only loss was “tiny video” as the resolution scaling is absent from the boxes version I’m on. The fact I can keep a podman instance up working (relies on kvm) was a major reason for the switch. So really not that much of a change.

Libadapta and Themes

On the Linux Mint 22.2 upgrade, I tried out the libadapta theming under a python program. Using Gtk-4 Adwaita is not too bad, but sometimes looks limited and unstyled. So I developed the basic demo further, adding in C++ to a hatch project, and then also added in luaJIT-5.1 for preference for some things. I don’t mind python for its large module range, ML to quite a few GUI toolkits. But I do like the simplicity of Lua and such a thing is more likely to fit mostly in the I-cache.