Talk:1764: XKCDE
The title text reminds me of the Dust Theory in Greg Egan's _Permutation City_. 141.101.104.72 07:45, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
It reminds me of Mushroom Spawns.--162.158.91.71 11:52, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Nested virtualization to three layers... --162.158.133.150 09:46, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Possible pun on existing desktop environments: KDE, CDE, LXDE, XFCE,... -> XKCDE (relies on conics using only upper-case letters). --JakubNarebski (talk) 10:51, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
The title text is a take on poetry. Sebastian --162.158.91.97 11:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
Title text may bear an oncology reference, with the "root machine" being a primary tumor and the "leaf VMs" its metastases, which also (can) proliferate to form a new tumor on whatever tissue they land (even long after the primary tumor is destroyed). 162.158.234.218 13:26, 25 November 2016 (UTC)