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More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"
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The other commenter already answers your quest, but I will just point out that python doesn't come included "on Linux". It just happens to be a dependency of so much stuff that some other packages is going to pull it in. A minimal distro which doesn't include programs written in python will probably not have python installed at all.
That's kinda wild tbh, even Node applications don't need to pull in Node.
But then, Python is an interpreted language so you need the interpreter installed. You do need JavaScript's interpreter for Node applications IIRC
Most of the time it's bundled in the application, unless it's a server app or a dev toolkit.
Hah. Tell that to Mint and it's bundled software!
Although, Mint's not alone in this. In general, if Python came pre-installed on your Linux system, uninstalling it tends to break a whole bunch of pre-installed software.