Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Friday 28 of August 2015 02:42:56 Felix Miata wrote:
Ondřej Súkup composed on 2015-08-28 08:25 (UTC+0200):
all 32bit consumer CPU are behind moral and physical service life .
Morals must be different in your country than in mine. There's no moral or physical reason here to junk a PC just because it's 5 years old. My newest of many functioning test PCs running openSUSE was manufactured ~6 years ago. The motherboard I'm typing this with is about 7-8 years old.
And I'm just going to reuse a motherboard/CPU I bought around 2006. My wife's machine has CPU I bought in 2005. Guess what... both are 64-bit. Even most of 5-8 year old machines are actually 64-bit. You would have to either carefully pick or dig even deeper (10+ years) to get hardware which is really 32-bit.
Yeah, that's true.
And that's the point: most of those still running i586 distributions do run them on 64-bit capable hardware - because they believe
(a) they don't need x86_64 unless they have >4GB of memory (b) it consumes less memory (c) it consumes less disk space
It's not about belief, I can easily prove (b) to you. I don't care about (a) and (c).
Sure, there is still some ancient 32-bit hardware around. But should we dedicate our limited resources to supporting it for years to come? I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
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