Update selecting tags documentation #6109
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| > Since .NET 8, these multi-platform tags **specifically exclude all Windows versions** due to `containerd`'s platform matching algorithm for Windows hosts. | ||
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| Please see [#4492 (Switch multi-platform tags to Linux only)](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/issues/4492) for more context. |
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The link to this issue is removed. I think it would be useful to keep this so that the community can easily find the context on why this decision was made for the .NET images.
| | Releases | [Every 6 months](https://alpinelinux.org/releases/) | | ||
| | Security | [Alpine Linux Security Tracker](https://security.alpinelinux.org/) | | ||
| | Support | [Alpine Linux Community](https://alpinelinux.org/community/) | | ||
| | Package manager | `apk` | |
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Would it be more useful to describe package type rather than package manager for each of these?
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| #### [Debian](https://www.debian.org/) | ||
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| * Stability-focused, extensive package repository. |
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Describing this as stability-focused (and Ubuntu as "user-friendly") and having it limited to just that distro may be controversial.
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Yeah. There were already "opinions" in this doc and others. I would probably just prefer to remove all such opinions from our docs and only report facts. Users can make their own judgement.
Attempting to fix Define doc providing guidance on Linux distros (#5063) while also cleaning up some stale documentation at the same time.
Related: Remove .NET 6 references from documentation (#6101)