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Especially for Linux, not everything is a desktop system. I have Debian installations running on embedded machines in the ten thousands.

Besides our custom kernel modules and business applications, Debian has everything these systems need and more.

I find it way cooler to use Debian on embedded systems rather than some buildroot, because it's a widely available and reproducible environment and debugging and development tools are an "apt install" away.

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> Besides our custom kernel modules and business applications, Debian has everything these systems need and more.

The thing is that even in embedded, people are starting to see the value of using libraries when writing those business applications, and they end up being the same libraries that parts of the base system will use. So either you need to align how the OS approaches those libraries with how the developer wants to, or you need a user-friendly way to have OS-managed versions and developer-managed versions coexist. Current Debian does neither of those things.

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