It seems Linux Mint is dropping GNU coreutils in favor of rust-coreutils following Ubuntu. (blog.linuxmint.com)

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Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?

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[-] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

That is all fair, and I'm sure there's other issues with Wayland, but really all my issuis come down to xwayland problems. I didn't realize KDE was dropping x11 though, that is unfortunate

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