• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Debian in many ways isn’t as slow-moving as people think.

    For example, they moved to Wayland by default (for Gnome anyway) in 2019. A number of well-known distros likely won’t have that until 2025/2026 or beyond.

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      6 months ago

      Sadly they’ve been dropping archs throughout the years, meaning they’re no longer the distro you can use to run on “anything” from a pi to a mainframe…

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        6 months ago

        Doesn’t trixie still support like a dozen arches? I think one of the more recent deprecations was MIPS BE which is functionally obsolete in 2024, at least insofar as practically no one is using it to run a modern distribution.

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          6 months ago

          Bookworm, Trixie, and Sid all currently support a total of 10 different architectures.

          And looking through the Wikipedia article for Debian’s version history, most of the dropped architectures were functionally obsolete when they were dropped, or like the Motorola 68000, when support was added. (notable exceptions being IA-64 which was dropped 4 years before intel discontinued it, SPARC which is still supported by Oracle, and PowerPC.)

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          6 months ago

          If your bar is “modern distribution” stick to Ubuntu.

          If you want to maintain older hardware Debian used to be a go-to solution.