A new Raspberry Pi Desktop release is finally available for x86-64

Simon Long has announceda long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian13 ("trixie"),for x86-64 systems.

We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseyereleases of Debian, but then we all just got too busy with other things, and,while we left the Bullseye version on the website for anyone who wanted it, wesimply didn't have time to release any newer versions. But people kept on askingfor it - we get two or three emails every week asking when the PC Desktop willbe updated, and we haven't had an answer, because we honestly didn't know whenwe might get a chance to do it. We've continually tried to allocate time to beable to work on this, but it hasn't been easy. [...]

Earlier this year, we (or rather Serge) finally got the latest version of theDesktop running on top of a Debian Trixie image. It's now based on 64-bit Debian(the amd64 architecture) rather than the older 32-bit version, as Debian itselfhas stopped supporting 32-bit for PC architectures. This shouldn't be a majorproblem - most PCs made in the last 15 years or so will quite happily run the64-bit version of Debian, as will most Intel-based Macs. (Debian support forApple Silicon is still experimental, so unfortunately those of you with thelatest and greatest shiny fruit products will not be able to run this.)