On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:44:20 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:05:50PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-08-29 09:30, Martin Pluskal wrote:
also threats to leave
Huh? Not threats.
Simple facts: if people have 32 bit hardware and it is not going to be supported by openSUSE, it is obvious they will have to go elsewhere.
Not necessarily. People having _only_ 32-bit hardware would be quite rare today. And if you have a mix, is absence of an official 32-bit build reason to migrate even the 64-bit ones? Someone might but not everyone. And even for those 32-bit machines, there are other options, like leaving them on Evergreen 13.1. Someone might even take it as the push to finally upgrade.
So yes, there are probably some people who would be so angry that they would move all their systems to a different distribution. But I don't think such extreme approach would be taken by majority of current i586 openSUSE users.
I think it's naive. Usually annoyance is more driving power than goodness. If we discontinue the 32bit support completely, it'd be just like a famous speech: "old soldiers never die, they just fade away." It's a good chance to try another better one, after all. IMO, the biggest problem is that we have no plan to rescue such users but it looks as if we'll just abandon them, so far. If the migration is tested and supported in some level, we can encourage that course. Or, we may ask more vocally for a user group who is willing to maintain a semi-official i586 image. I personally am convinced about the drop of i586 official image from Leap. But the argument should be rather more constructive. Instead of shouting about how bad and minor 32bit became, we should show better our goal, assigning more our resources to improving the quality of x86-64 image, and also show the rescue plans like the above. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org