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Some hardware doesn't play well with deb based distros vs rpm based, it would be good to point out if your install is failing with errors that another distro may work
Absolutely not a thing ๐คฃ
Where did you get this idea? Packages are compiled by architecture.
This may also come down to hardware support generally; we ran into an issue upgrading an OS from CentOS 7 to Rocky 9; where RH had dropped support for our hardware during the RHEL 8 releases.
Debian, on the other hand, still had drivers available.
Yeah, it was some BIOS bug or hardware error that halted Debs, but RPM based would show that it worked around the issue and continued. As a Debian branch whatever was missing in main was probably missing throughout all the derivatives.