Originally posted by sdack
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Major distros ALSO target PC users, but not just them, Servers is where Linux sells and where most of the money comes from.
Manjaro isn't different or special in this regard to others.
It's like 4-5 dudes making a more user-friendly Arch for PC users (and they do a good job at that). Their goal is the same as Antergos's. Making a good PC distro for PC users. Everything else is not their goal and they don't even have the manpower to deal with it.
But they are now dropping the 32-bit PC users and it doesn't seem like they're having much of a choice when Arch Linux is doing it, too, now do they?
I'd rather be much more interested in discussing the negative sides of losing the 32-bit support
If they drop 32-bit support you won't be able to install Manjaro, a PC-only distro, on hardware that barely runs modern programs anyway.
We are talking of first-gen Core processors and older, or crappy netbooks. That hardware is already plagued by crappy processors, usually 2GB max ram and crappy integrated GPU too, obsolete expansion interfaces and so on and so forth.
This hardware is pretty much on its last legs for the Manjaro's goal (running a modern distro with modern programs), and for that matter also Arch's.
it's ok when users are being abandoned and forced to switch to 64-bit or to choose a different distro
Is it worth impacting everyone just to keep a few users happy?
Because that's the tradeoff of keeping stuff supported.
And it's ok when Linux does it? I sure don't agree, but I can accept it if it's done by Arch/Manjaro, because they're lacking the manpower. But I sure as hell won't accept some BS about what's good for users as if this was a Microsoft press release.
As said above, some distros that focus on (very) modern GUI software are just recognizing that they can't offer an acceptable experience on 32-bit hardware without wasting too much resources, and that's fine.
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