LXLE is a great distribution for all systems. The CPU has little to do with internet speeds. Herndon, actually the difference of 32 bit and 64 bit is about how the system deals with larger memory blocks. While my first computer was only 2K of RAM and built by a watch factory, I owned many systems such as the Color Computer 2 and 3, I owned a TI-994A, and my first computer to use a floppy drive - I owned was the Radio Shack Tandy HX that looked like a typewriter and a 3.5 inch floppy. There is no real "need" to keep upgrading your OS, unless you are having issues with your operating system. I know I stayed with 12.04 for many years even after the LTS expired. I still had to work with Windows regardless of how I felt. At this time, I moved away from Microsoft at home, and I started using Ubuntu Linux, Kubuntu, and Debian. ![]() ![]() ![]() They lied and made fake commercials with actors pretending to love Vista. I absolutely loved working with Windows XP SP3 but Microsoft showed us a real lack of ethics with their push of Vista. I saw the pros and cons of all these systems from working with them in automotive, chemical, power, and communication companies. I have worked with all three Mac, Linux, and Windows in the field of large industrial companies. I am looking for a new distro, and I am hoping LXLE is it.īeamer, my comment about Ubuntu 12.04 isn't about security and more about keeping an old stable version available in the event you cannot readily find a 32 bit OS in the future. If Ubuntu is abandoning 32 bit support, does that mean LXLE will automatically be abandoning it as well? Please let me know, since my current distro (WattOS) reaches its End of Life in 2021, and it looks like there will be no sequel. why still use LXDE or LXQt, then? Why try to use "lightweight" apps such as AbiWord as opposed to LibreOffice? These are questions for a different topic. That opens a much broader question about the focus of the distro. Maybe LXLE does need, like Lubuntu, to abandon the lightweight market and move to something different. If you live in the city where there is much faster internet, I take your point. I am sure that this is also the case in other countries besides the US. In my situation, 64 bit, which can handle much faster internet, is a bit of overkill. I live in a very rural area with poor internet (1.5 mb/sec and usually much less). However, if the purpose of LXLE is to have a lightweight but beautiful distro, it seems targeted at older systems. In the end, you can always revert to using older distributions, if you a very paranoid, you could keep a backup of Ubuntu 12.04 on disk somewhere. However with fear of the virus gripping the nation, we are back to dumpster diving. Most of the time we get people bringing their old systems in for cash, in response to our advertisements. In fact, he found an i-core 5, with a perfectly working mobo, and 2 GB of RAM about 6 months ago. My nephew and I salvage old PCs people throw away in the garbage, recently we cannot find very many 32 bit systems on the curb. Other than a hobby, why would I? This is how 32 bit systems and software will be viewed in the future. But if I found one in a junk pile and fixed it up I would have to boot free DOS or Linux from the mid 1990's. I seriously doubt anyone still runs an old 286, 386, or 486 here this day. More Information link: will break down the stats by OS. ![]() Now you might think this data pertains only to Windows OS, but clicking the This mean for every 1 million PC users out there this month that 150,000 dropped Windows and 50,000 moved to Linux.Īs you can see, 74% uses Intel over AMD, almost the same amount use Nvidia GPU, and over 64% of us have double CPUs or Quad Cores. Windows OS while still the lion's share at 95.6% is dropping at -0.15%.To cite as example Steam tracks their user hardware and software on this sight link: at the bottom of this page I find it very interesting about OS choices being made As 64 bit CPUs flood the planet, the old 32 bit CPUs will be replaced. I imagine there will always be 32 bit emulation available for all old software in the future. not all good things come to an end, but all things must change.
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