Just updated one of my ancient Raspberry Pis to #Debian #trixie (the REAL Debian, NOT Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian). It drives speakers for my whole-house audio system using snapcast.
Rebooted.
System came back up perfectly.
Total RAM in use: 70MB.
That's WITH an active ssh session, systemd, exim4, unattended-upgrades, etc.
I am impressed!
Reasonable software still exists in 2025.
This Pi has only 512MB RAM and I've never bothered to provision any swap.