Ok,
I woke up this morning with this question?
If Tumbleweed is the latest Kernel and Software Versions, why are we worried about hardware that is over 8 years old?
If the hardware is old - force them to go to Leap or other Linux flavors that specialize in i586 and 32 bit stuff. This has already been discussed in summer. On the one hand it seems the old hardware is still "good enough" for
Hi Larry, On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 10:47:33 -0600 Larry Len Rainey wrote: the people who use it. Otherwise they would have replaced it. BTW, there is no 32 bit version of Leap for long time. Tumbleweed is the last openSUSE variant with x86_32 support. And to force users to switch to other Linux distributions seems not like good marketing to me. To use a current Linux version, like Tumbleweed, even on an old system has the advantage to get bug fixes and security updates and new features. So if it is possible, why not? On the other hand, according to the benchmarks presented, the performance improvement by switching to x86-64-v2 is just measurable tiny and very likely will not be noticeable except for maybe some very special use cases.
Sometimes it is "Time to cut bait" as American say when the fishing is so bad you go home.
Larry Rainey - (VirtualBox co-support with Larry Finger).
Sorry about the ramble, I used to be marketing then support. I fail to see the marketing point of "wont run on pre-x86-64-v2 CPUs". I admit I do not understand how "our new version has restricted CPU support" can make it sell better. But I have no experience in marketing. It seems to boil down to "we obsolete CPUs in order to obsolete CPUs".
Kind regards, Dieter