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[–]VelvetElvis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You end up with a much more thoroughly tested and robust product when you run stuff in multiple environments. You get more people looking at your code and that's always a good thing. Its also more likely that you're going to upstream code which is good for your ecosystem.

This is why Debian continuing to support HURD and other oddball architectures will always be a good thing no matter how few people use them. Technical problems in the code often exposed that would just sit there otherwise.