That's not accurate. For years I have run Linux (Debian and Gentoo mostly) on various architectures, including on an old PowerBook Pismo (G3) and an IBM Power 5, and I have rarely encountered architecture related limitations.
True, you will encounter issues (proprietary software, arch specific software (ex: chromium)), but these are not the norm. Wet fingering it, I would say at least 95% of packages worked without any issue, and this includes big things like Firefox, Libreoffice, OpenJDK, Apache...
I was a bit sad when Debian dropped support for ppc32.
True, you will encounter issues (proprietary software, arch specific software (ex: chromium)), but these are not the norm. Wet fingering it, I would say at least 95% of packages worked without any issue, and this includes big things like Firefox, Libreoffice, OpenJDK, Apache...
I was a bit sad when Debian dropped support for ppc32.