HACKER Q&A
📣 luke2m

Does anyone else use a 32 bit computer regularly?


My primary computer was 32 bit x86 until last year. I still use it often, but more and more software is dropping support.


  👤 h2odragon Accepted Answer ✓
RasPi's running TV's count, right?

Also have one on my desk to run one as a minimal terminal in case my "real" machine goes down, so i can have my keyboard and trackball and comfortable desk arrangement to work with even while fixing the bigger system. I manage to need that one once every 6 months or so, for some reason or another.

I think I shut down my last 32bit x86 system in 2019. It was a laptop that had been serving as a home lan router / firewall / file server for almost a decade.


👤 yyyk
32bit ARMv7 is arguably better supported these days. Plenty of people still use smartphones with this arch, and software is widely available (you didn't say it had to be x86!).

I can't recall my last 'real' i386 processor, I switched as soon as possible to one of the first AMDs to support 64 bit. I wonder, which 32bit x86 computer do you use which is still working? It must be old, at least a decade. Last Intel made 32bit, there were a few 32bit atom notebooks about a decade ago, but I recall these were rather weak even at the time?


👤 stewx
Why?