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BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Windows11 is trying to do just that; having a minimum spec chip, so they could eventually drop support for a lot of older hardware. But PCs are so modular that you can pretty much add any hardware together and the OS (such as Linux) can figure out the packages you need to make it all run…but even Linux has dropped a lot of 32bit support in the last few years. So it happens, just at a much longer time frame

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IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

even Linux has dropped a lot of 32bit support in the last few years

And that’s just because no developer uses those systems anymore actively. If you really want to, you can pick up from where they left and bring the support back. But as 32bit x86 CPUs haven’t been produced in the last 20 years (give or take a few years) there’s just not that many working systems around anymore.

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- BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, no point supporting something that has become obsolete. Foss community often puts effort in as passion, but a business will not want technical debt and move on to the next hardware support
  
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