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.

I know that the Levovo IdeaStick 300 (2017) could not run Tumbleweed or Leap as the BIOS only supported 32 bit UEFI code. That forced me to Sparky Linux on those computers as they had a 32 bit /boot/EFI that worked.

The sales pitch that I used with Walmart to go to Unix (and later to Linux) is if you dislike the vendor - you can switch to another with little application impact (if on the same processor family). Walmart like to play the hardware vendors against each other - they had NCR MPRAS, IBM AIX and HP HPUX machines all running the same apps to force lower pricing. Sometimes, it does not pay to migrate to newer, Walmart has an application they cannot find a "cost acceptable" replacement and it still runs on a 1989 100 mhz 486 running NCR MPRAS 1.0. - they have stockpiles bunches of used old NCR 486 machine and dozens of SCSI I drives that the old Microchannel computers use. That application is so embedded with other applications that it would cost millions to replace it and most of the programs that use it may not have the source code to change.

I have switched from Mandrake to Fedora, to Centos, to openSUSE and every application and script I wrote worked (sometime after recompiling from 32 bit to 64 bit). I use Tumbleweed for osc development on 8th Gen Intel processors - You can find nice 8th gen units on eBay for under $250 with everything including Windows 11. I also have Leap 15.4 as my primary computer OS.

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.