Denis-Cosmin Nuțiu

May 9, 2026

Grok is really cool

Hello,

I've been dabbling in LLMs recently and what always impressed me was Grok's voice capabilities and search capabilities. I don't think LLMs are concious or are smart but if they have access to search tools they can analyze a bunch of text and provide a solution.

In my case I've upgraded to Fedora 44 on my Linux machines and I rely on Windows for authenticating with a smart card token and signing PDF files for business purposes. Now, on Linux that token is not supported, the manufacturer doesn't offer any support for it and drivers that I found online don't work either.

When I upgraded from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 my VMWare Workstation PRO software stopped working, this is due to an incompatible X11 bug.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/vmware-workstation-25h2u1-crashes-on-fedora-44-kde-plasma/190597

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The thread, which also contains the solution was started 3 days ago on May 6 2026.

I've given several LLMs the vague prompt of "VMware Workstation Pro doesn't work on fedora 44" and only Grok managed to give a solution. The other ones (Gemini Pro, Kimi 2.6, ChatGPT, Claude Sonet) started going off-rails and started proposing random fixes.

Grok was straight to the point: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_e8e4d61f-9d90-4e67-8518-1aa003de7d30

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I'm genuinely impressed by it and I find it pretty cool that it managed to find the forum thread and extract a solution out of it, a working one.

The solution:

sudo cp /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libX11.so.6/libX11.so.6 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libX11.so.6/libX11.so.6.bak
sudo cp /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libX11.so.6/libX11.so.6

That's about it, thanks for reading!

Kind regards,
Denis Nuțiu

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