XPost: linux.debian.devel.release 
 From: prosfilaes@gmail.com 
  
 On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 4:20€€€PM Jan-Daniel Kaplanski  
 wrote: 
 > 
 > > Yes, 20 year old hardware is looking ancient and retro. 
 > To specify, I was refering to x86-64-v1 hw when I said "reasonably large 
 > amount of users". 
  
 Which works just fine with Rust. It's strictly unhelpful to confound 
 the two issues. 
  
 > > There is no practical reason to use Linux on any of those [...] 
 > Except for homelabers, in enterprise environments (legacy software!) or 
 > lab environments (specialised hardware peripherals), etc. 
  
 In what cases would you use Linux on any of the four systems I 
 mentioned for legacy software or specialized hardware peripherals? As 
 for homelabers, yes, it's fun to make an old Mac run Linux/m68k, but 
 that doesn't mean it's practical. 
  
 > > a Pi 5 soundly beats any of those systems ever made 
 > And a Threadripper PRO 9995WX based system soundly beats any Pi 5. So 
 > going by your logic there isn't a practical reason to run Linux on a Pi 
 > 5, because there is a more capable system out there. That logic isn't 
 > very sound, yk? 
  
 No, a Threadripper PRO 9995WX is way more expensive than a Pi 5, it 
 draws way more power, it's way louder and takes way more space. You 
 will save the cost of the Raspberry Pi in a year on electrical costs 
 alone. There is no practical reason to run Linux on HPPA or Alpha or 
 SH4 or m68k. 
  
 > That only means that in the future you'd have to have a highly 
 > specialised Rust-dev team in any major OS-related project. And for what 
 > purpose? Just because everyone does it. 
  
 Is this just a grousing session? 
  
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 (1991) 
  
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