[brazzy]

>Debian labels itself the 'universal operating system', and makes no aspirations to cater to the lowest common denominator of users.

That's a bit of a contradiction.

[mbreese]

Universal operating system for a wide variety of hardware, but some expertise is assumed for the user.

Kind of a novel choice now that I think about it... most projects aim for more users, which means less assumed knowledge, which necessitates more limits on hardware. Not a bad choice, just different.