Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> writes: > Hi, > > On 20/6/19 4:28 pm, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 01:03:50AM +0200, Matthew Crews wrote: >>> On 6/19/19 3:30 PM, Lazar Tadić wrote: >>>> Don't worry Mathew, 32-bit arch is currently 2nd most popular >>>> arch on Debian. There's no way it will be dropped even after >>>> Buster. > > I would think this would be due to misunderstanding by new users more > than anything else. > > Most, if not all 32 bit arch machines are probably going to consume > far more energy than newer machines of far greater capability. That > is, it probably doesn't make any financial sense to continue running > an old 32 bit machine. > > And if it is user misunderstanding, then many of those probably have > suitable 64 bit machines anyway. > > Cheers > A. >
In the corp world that's very true Andrew re: energy but you under estimate the amount of 32bit machines still running under desks, connected to devices in workshops, in homes doing stuff out of sight. -- Regards......... PGP Fingerprint: 3DF8 311C 4740 B5BC 3867 72DF 1050 452F 9BCE BA00
