"Picking the right binary for the right architecture", isn't your OS package manager supposed to take care of that? Cross-compiling is often pretty easy if you

"Picking the right binary for the right architecture", isn't your OS package manager supposed to take care of that? Cross-compiling is often pretty easy if you have custom binaries. There is a big advantage to using different OSes/architectures with the same programs (compiled to target the right combination of hardware and OS) : it often helps detect subtle bugs, that may not manifest on one platform but be obvious on the next.