## PIKA's Operating System Support

PIKA is available on a wide range of operating systems.
As a general rule, we should stop supporting a platform as soon as the
publisher stops supporting it, or if it is nearly not used anymore.

There is no accurate rule though, and it also mostly depends on what the
developers maintaining PIKA for this platform will decide.

### GNU/Linux, *BSD…

Until PIKA 3.0 release, Debian 12 "bookworm" stable will be our baseline target.
I.e. that we can bump a minimum dependency version only if it is in Debian
bookworm.

After PIKA 3.0 release, we might get back to depend on Debian Testing.

### macOS

Compatibility with 10.13 and over.

Hardware:
* x86_64 (Intel)
* ARM 64-bit (Apple Silicon)

### Windows

Windows 10 and over.

Hardware:
* x86 32 and 64-bit
* ARM 64-bit (experimental)