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Arch Linux is moving ahead with preparing to deprecate i686 (x86 32-bit) support in their distribution.
Due to declining usage of Arch Linux i686, they will be phasing out official support for the architecture. Next month's ISO spin will be the last for offering a 32-bit Arch Linux install. Following that will be a nine month deprecation period where i686 packages will still see updates.
Any Soylentils still making major use of 32-bit x86? And any of you using Arch Linux? Distrowatch still lists Arch Linux as a top 10 distribution.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:36PM
> As for Arch, it's always been helmed by snobbish know-it-all tyrants, who are perfectly comfortable running roughshod over those who are not members of the recognized elite
That's what I learned when Arch switched to systemd some years ago. The move was a huge pain to accomplish with their rolling update system, involving more than a dozen complicated commands to enter at a console. Towards the end, it went wrong somehow and left me with a broken system. Maybe I mistyped a command, or maybe their commands didn't account for some feature of my setup. Commented about the matter on the Arch forums, that maybe they shouldn't have rushed to switch to systemd so fast, and received attitude from one of the Arch maintainers. That was when I abandoned Arch. Installed Lubuntu (I usually turn to an Ubuntu distro when I want one quick) and haven't touched Arch since.
I've tried lots of distros. Someone says Arch is for Gentoo wannabes who don't want to do lots of compiling. Well, I've tried Gentoo. With roughly 1000 packages installed, and packages being updated on average perhaps 4 times a year, that's a bit more than 10 updates per day, all of which must be compiled. A big one, like an update to X, took hours to do. The worst was an update to gcc. Compile new gcc with old gcc, then compile new gcc again, with new gcc. Then, recompile EVERYTHING with new gcc.
These days, I'm not as interested in experimenting with the system. I just want a stable distro that takes minimal effort to maintain, don't want to spend lots of time being my own sysadm any more, rather focus on other work.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:44PM
Is that the optimisation they call "loop unrolling"?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:59PM
That reminds me of a Slashdot comment I read in my youth: Some guy said that he was a long-time Linux user who switched to the Macintosh because he was tired of tinkering and wanted a system that Just Works; at the time, I thought "Well, to each his own, but I love tinkering, and I cannot imagine enjoying a system that doesn't offer such control!"
Well, my relationship to tinkering has grown cold over the years, and now we're just uncomfortable bedfellows.
I think this explains the falling out: In my youthful exuberance, I felt my tinkering led me to an ever more perfect creation; yet, what I've found over the years is that the shifting sands of technology and "community" interests means that all of one's carefully crafted work eventually becomes a stagnant, incompatible wasteland. If one doesn't submit to the Tyranny of the Majority, then one is forced to become an old codger, yelling at those short-sighted, sycophantic, disgustingly exuberant youths to get off your command line! Just leave me and my programs alone, you uncouth, ill-bred scalawags!
I mean, if you're going to acquiesce to the unwashed masses, you might as well be getting some customer service (e.g., from a company that is paid to construct your computing system, like Apple).
So, to that "old" man on Slashdot: I get it now. Life is short; use a system that eases the suffering.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:23PM
Mate on Xubuntu 12.04?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base