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LLMs, Rust, and Wayland all have been striking me as bizarrely cultish in the Linux development world, so I'm going to stay well away from this. They seem to be aggressively showing up everywhere so I don't know how long I'll be able to do that. Here's hoping they don't spread through XFCE as a whole. It was always my favorite of the mainline DEs