I don’t know. just the other day somebody on lemmy was asking about installing a 32bit distro on an old netbook and the majority of comments were discussing whether there was any practical reason for distros to continue 32-bit support.
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iesha_256@lemmy.ml 14 hours agothis isn’t about the age of the OS, it’s the age of the device. I can install linux on a device from 20 years ago if not more.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
That’s unfortunate, but still leaves you 20 years worth of devices if they drop 32-bit.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Ahh, so the win11 arbitrary hardware requirements bullshit