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Idea: automatically add the correct OS icon for a newly created VM (based on VM name)

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Description

Idea: automatically add the correct OS icon for a newly created VM, if there's a word in the VM name that looks like the name of a "supported" operating system (check against the list of OS names UTM has a default icon for)

The reason I'm suggesting this is because I think in general, computers shouldn't force users to perform futile busywork when if it can be avoided using relatively simple "AI".

Example / steps to reproduce:
1. "+ Create a new VM"
...
2. For the name of the VM, write something like "Fedora Linux 39 (random additional text here)"

What happens: the user has to manually add and find the Fedora icon for the newly created VM

What would be nice: automatically scan the name of the VM for what looks like one of the OS names UTM has an OS icon for. In the example above, the "Fedora" OS icon could be automatically added for the VM because there's "Fedora" in the VM name. Note that there's also "Linux" in the VM name (and UTM also has a "Linux" icon), so the system should probably also have a way to mark that "Linux" is "weaker" than actual Linux distro names, and/or any other heuristics / special cases you come up with.

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