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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by soulofmischief on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:35PM (#26754264)
I run GNOME/Wayland on my host and do 100% of my computing inside fully-virtualized VMs running xfce, an actually useful desktop environment. In this way, GNOME 3 actually excels because it's completely void of features and is thus mostly invisible.
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by forgotpwd16 on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:15PM (#26755525)
Why do that rather just run Xfce?
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by soulofmischief on Sunday April 11, 2021 @03:37AM (#26768312)
All of the things sister comment listed and more.

* Compartmentalization

* Layered defense

* Windows is not allowed to touch my bare metal

* Having development images for work, play, etc.

* Easy migration

* Configuring multiple separate environments from one control node

* Accessing my virtual machines over the wire using QEMU on my laptops

* Being able to take a system crash without losing other running contexts.

* Maintaining host-level logical volume management and snapshots while guests retain a simplified partioning layout, with separate images for easy migration of `/home` and `/usr/local`

* Advanced firewall configurations

etc.

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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by carlhjerpe on Saturday April 10, 2021 @12:03AM (#26758816)
* Company image

* Snapshots

* Portability

* Isolation

Just a few things i could come up with as valid reasons someone would want to do this.

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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by jl6 on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:54PM (#26755278)
Out of interest are you doing this using Qubes? And why?
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by soulofmischief on Sunday April 11, 2021 @03:32AM (#26768285)
I used to, but my requirements evolved out of Qubes and I ended up replicating most of the Qubes environment over KVM.
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by infokiller on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:21AM (#26789952)
Are you using alternatives to Qubes tools such as the secure clipboard (qvm-copy-to-vm), or just using a lower security setup?
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Re:HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged by soulofmischief on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:09AM (#26803915)
I have some of my own tooling in place, for example with secure clipboard, I have disabled clipboard sharing between VMs and instead wrote host-level ssh+xclip scripts which I hotkeyed.
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