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

Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie"), for x86-64 systems. We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseye releases 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, we simply didn't have time to release any newer versions. But people kept on asking for it – we get two or three emails every week asking when the PC Desktop will be updated, and we haven't had an answer, because we honestly didn't know when we might get a chance to do it. We've continually tried to allocate time to be able to work on this, but it hasn't been easy. [...] Earlier this year, we (or rather Serge) finally got the latest version of the Desktop 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 itself has stopped supporting 32-bit for PC
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