poof! there is now a gui!!!
as you might have guessed, there’s still no artwork
however,

• there is now some gui! in the screenshot, i am running waybar manually from a terminal.
• the terminal in question is called foot ( - also, there is 0 config of anything at all
• the login works perfectly! i don’t have a screenshot and i don’t want to boot up the vm again for this
• speaking of vms, i finally figured out why everything was so slow and sluggish—it was because qemu was using TCG (tiny code generator) (software emulation) instead of KVM acceleration (kernel-based virtual machine). i turned on kvm and it started up in SECONDS.

that’s about it, and see you all tomorrow!