As far as I know that’s because the “universal” binary is shipped with multiple platforms supported.

Dinit for desktop, s6 for server.

What is wrong with s6 for desktop?

does it mean, that it will be possible to launch native (arm/arm64) raspberry-pi distro on virtual box?

Thank you for your question!

There are some benefits, among them:

• syncspirit is faster. According to my measurements it is able to sync linux sources tree folder for 2 mins vs 15 mins of syncing when using syncthing (that’s over a localhost, of course)
• syncspirit has a different UI. That’s matter of personal taste, of course, but I like to see the exact picture what is synchronized and what is not.
• syncspirit is able to run on more older software (i.e. from windows xp and up). Syncthing uses golang, and its software support is indirectly controlled by google (i.e. “artificial aging”); recent builds are running only on windows 10 and windows 11. Microsoft already dropped windows 10 support, so, I expect that in near future google will do the same.
• the long-term goal of syncspirit is to allow “selective sync” feature, which unlikely to be implemented by syncthing.

wbr, basiliscos