Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Saturday 05 of September 2015 00:27:23 Per Jessen wrote:
Well, given that openSUSE appears to be planning to abandon all "current i586 openSUSE users"
That's only your (mis)interpretation of what is happening. OpenSUSE is not planning to abandon all "current i586 openSUSE users".
Then I have certainly misunderstood something completely.
Only those who insist on staying with 32-bit distribution so strongly that they would rather change the distribution than upgrade to a 64-bit system.
You're playing with words. The end effect is the same. AFAICT, with openSUSE Leap, openSUSE i586 users have only two options - stop using i586 or change distro.
I believe most current i586 openSUSE users do not use this architecture out of necessity. There may be some, sure, but IMHO it's just a small fraction; some (like you) do it for their beliefs but most of them only because of inertia and lack of an impulse strong enough to push them into migration. For those, switching to x86_64 may be an inconvenience - and we should do our best to it as small one as we can - but much less of inconvenience that moving to a different distribution.
The switching is at most a minor inconvenience, I have no issue with that - when I want to switch. However, I don't want to switch because 64bit in my use cases is a drawback.
In other words: I don't believe majority of current i586 openSUSE users would switch to a different distribution just because of the lack of an i586 Leap release. Not by far.
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