Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04

[Azrael5]

Well.

[Azrael5]

32 bit systems will be deprecated within 2 years.

[dungeon]

Why log scale on Y axis?

No, idea - maybe it is some standard i am not aware of Maybe so that it works on some text based web browsers and that imagemagick could show it or something

[Anvil]

It's about time.

it is, it also cuts down the cost of making 32bit images, im assuming Fedora will do the same

[Delgarde]

Why log scale on Y axis?

Presumably because a linear scale would be useless on a chart where the highest numbers peak at around 250,000, but where a lot of the interesting details are under 100.

[MVinhas]

And because it's debianxfce-approved.

debianxfce approves Debian stable with buggy software? Yeah right.

[dungeon]

Presumably because a linear scale would be useless on a chart where the highest numbers peak at around 250,000, but where a lot of the interesting details are under 100.

0.74% of else 64bit x86 submissions are 85.57% and 32bit are 13.69%. But it is probably true about chart, so that these downthere does not look like non-existent.

On a package level spikes for 32bit goes from as low as 7% and as high as 16%... so for sure there are still a lot of 32bit OS users in Debian, something between 11.5% and that 13.69% on average and that is quite a lot still Interestingly, that even kind of stablise itself as other distros started demoting/dropping 32bit, so likely there are switcherers

[Weasel]

I love how MS is the boogeyman of planned obsolescence, but they still release 32 bit windows 10.

WTF are you talking about? Windows XP was good for more than a decade. No Linux distro comes close to that, and if they do, they're way more crippled as time goes on.

I think you wanted to say "Apple" there.

[mulenmar]

WTF are you talking about? Windows XP was good for more than a decade. No Linux distro comes close to that, and if they do, they're way more crippled as time goes on.

I think you wanted to say "Apple" there.

Windows XP was never good, it was just capable of cleaning up when it soiled itself. And could successfully setup.exe itself without the 30% chance of corrupting the new installation in the process.

As for being an unchanging platform to target, I distinctly remember installing SP2 and SP3, plus about ten thousand patches, DirectX 9.0c, and a half-dozen versions of Visual C++ Runtime. I felt right at home when I learned how to use update PPAs on Ubuntu 8.04.

Maybe you meant FreeBSD? :P

[Weasel]

Windows XP was never good

It's still perfectly functional in many areas to this day, almost 20 years later. Compare with Linux 20 years ago which was a pathetic joke (and when I say Linux 20 years ago, I literally mean using a distro from 2000 today and see how functional it is). Heck Ubuntu wasn't even around in the 2000s!

And could successfully setup.exe itself without the 30% chance of corrupting the new installation in the process.

Never had any corruption, not on real machines, or on VMs. It's just you.

As for being an unchanging platform to target

That's not what I said but ok.

I distinctly remember installing SP2 and SP3, plus about ten thousand patches, DirectX 9.0c, and a half-dozen versions of Visual C++ Runtime. I felt right at home when I learned how to use update PPAs on Ubuntu 8.04.

Guess what? At least you could install that stuff 10 years later on it and have it work. You can't even install new packages in 5 years in Linux land (LTS distro) and most times even less time than that.

But sure Microsoft are the kings of planned obsolescence that they supply updates and ability to install new apps on a 14 year old OS when Linux distros barely bother with 5 years (except security updates).