WagnasT ( @WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English32•9 months agowe need laws that require companies to unlock boot loaders when they drop support, or at least provide the means to do so.
JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English27•9 months agoOr just always? I buy a device, I want full control over it.
rshalom ( @rshalom@kbin.social ) 17•9 months agoNot really true. Plenty of Linux distributions dropped 32bit support years ago and 32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years (last ones were some Intel Atoms released around 2010).
jmcs ( @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ) English25•9 months agoWhen talking about Linux desktops it includes distros like Debian, who will support i386 until, at least 2028. Even some fast moving distros like OpenSuse Tumbleweed still support i386.
I’m running crunchbang++ on my i686 box.
roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 3•9 months agoCan I play command and conquer on all i386 Linux install? Otherwise I’m sticking with DOS.
umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English4•9 months agoOpenRA
I have Linux running strongly on two laptops from 2007. If I still had my old Dell from 2003, I’d bet I could get the latest Puppy Linux running on it. Maybe even something like Debian or Arch32, if I maxed out the RAM.
notTheCat ( @notTheCat@lemmy.fmhy.net ) English2•9 months agoI’ve tried Arch32 a while ago, the project isn’t that well maintained (like I appreciate they’re trying), I’ve had MX Linux before, worked great, just a bit outdated, I moved my 32bit machine to Void Linux, it seems to have the best support yet ! I’m running cutting edge kernel and dev tools on that old fart
thejodie ( @thejodie@programming.dev ) English4•9 months ago“32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years”
I don’t follow. The i386 is almost 40 years old now. Can you elaborate?
vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•9 months agoit may have began 4 decades ago, but what matters is that only one decade ago new hardware was still being released.
thejodie ( @thejodie@programming.dev ) English2•9 months agoAnd new processors stopped supporting x86-32 a decade ago?
vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•9 months agonope, new processors still do. At least on intel/amd processors. it’s only software that decided to drop support
Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) English1•9 months agojeeze, let’s say 14 years instead, though it’s not hard to find 32 bit compatible distributions. (It’s much harder to find eeepcs with 32 bit still operating. Mine’s made in 2009 and has a 64bit single core cpu.
chicken ( @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•9 months agoI replaced ChromeOS with Linux forever ago when they dropped support for my hardware. It would be a brick if not for Linux.
fadingembers ( @fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•9 months agoThe three finger swipe between tabs gesture is pretty sweet though and I wish I could have it on other operating systems
Draconic NEO ( @Draconic_NEO@sopuli.xyz ) English1•7 months agoUnless you used Ubuntu 32 bit, then they’ll just drop you like a sack of potatoes, in that regard Canonical is no better than Google
🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English1•9 months agoThis implies that LeapFrogs are better computers.
Well, LeapFrogs are for kids. Chromebooks are supposed to be for… students, I guess?