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The number of i386 installations have been relatively constant since 2007. All the growth has been in amd64.

I guess Debian is the kind of distribution you put on a computer that is going to to sit in a room and run the same non-taxing services for years without attention.

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More accurate to cross out "the same non-taxing services" but otherwise basically correct.

With "non-taxing" I meant "services whose load will not justify a hardware update for the next 6+ years".

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I guess Debian is the kind of distribution you put on a computer that you want to sit in a room and run for years without a problem.

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