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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:22PM
Those first ones are all convertibles, i.e. tablets with a keyboard.
The problem with tablets is
- touchscreen, thus glaring
- tiny SSD, SOLDERED IN (though admittedly a bit larger than what my netbook has, but then that netbook has a SD slot), RAM soldered in (and 1/4 of what I have in my netbook, that is NOT an upgrade)
- few to no connectors (usually, you are lucky to get 2 USB ports, 0 ethernet etc. etc.)
So exactly what I said: a SOLID downgrade compared to the 10 year old netbook.
The Acer Aspire One C/D that gets thrown around are only sold used, and for fairly high prices (for used, 6 year old computers at least).
Anything I've looked at below $600 was "I don't think I'd have a use for it for free", and even most of the > $1000 get at best a "well, at least the CPU got faster" grade.