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Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:06 am
by entropyfoe
All my workstations are AMD 64 bit.
But I do have an old Acer laptop, with a Celron.
It requires 32 bit.
So, answer yes.
(Though I know I could use AntiX)
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:27 am
by asqwerth
Jerry3904 wrote:@asqwerth: not sure about that:
--Facebook now has 19 votes, 3:1 "yes."
--Here 16 votes, 2:1 "no"
--Twitter 7 votes, 2:1 "yes"
Probably different audiences to some extent, and numbers still low.
Yep, the poll figures are ever changing. It's almost 50-50 here now.
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:49 am
by CaptainKirk
I still ned 32bit for my old Toshiba laptop and an even older HP OmniBook 6000
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:51 pm
by duane
Slowly switching to 64 bit machines here. About half 32bit still.
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:22 pm
by zeeone
A computer is a terrible thing to waste.
Have a Macbook and Macbook PRO (Core Duo), so I voted yes.
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:46 pm
by Adrian
Macbooks though can do 64bit, right?
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:03 pm
by GuiGuy
It seems pretty clear already that many MX lovers need a 32bit version.
So do we have a problem if/when MX17 uses Stretch?
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:06 pm
by dolphin_oracle
GuiGuy wrote:It seems pretty clear already that many MX lovers need a 32bit version.
So do we have a problem if/when MX17 uses Stretch?
Nope
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:05 pm
by linmx
32 bit is what brought me to MX after it was recommended in a
Manjaro forum thread.
I have an i686 laptop that works fine for what I use it for, so I'd like to keep it alive for as long as possible.
Re: How many of you need a 32 bit distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:51 pm
by Adrian
If there were any doubts this thread makes it pretty clear that we'll still need to continue to support 32bit, not sure how other distros (Arch comes to mind) plan to drop the official support.