<div dir="ltr">Not saying that my use cases are typical:<div> - My 1GB netbook only seems to run 32-bit images. 32-bit Kubuntu dailies run acceptably for me, but 32-bit Manjaro KDE seems to just thrash my hard drive, but I have never been able to install a 64-bit image of any distro on it.</div><div> - I installed VMware Player on my work Win7 laptop. In general, I think VMware Player is smoother on a Win7 host than Virtual Box, but at least for me, I cannot install 64-bit images on VMware Player on my work laptop (and the BIOS is locked down).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Harald Sitter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sitter@kde.org" target="_blank">sitter@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Aaron Honeycutt<br>
<<a href="mailto:honeycuttaaron3@gmail.com">honeycuttaaron3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think Harald is only willing to make 64bit ISO's.<br>
<br>
This has more to do with practical implications than anything else.<br>
For the past 5+ years or so all consumer devices sold were 64bit, and<br>
running Plasma 5 reliably on older hardware than that is a<br>
hit-and-miss sort of deal as the hardware will often be outright too<br>
limited (e.g. in terms of RAM, Plasma+Browser easily gets you >2gig)<br>
or have problems meeting opengl requirements of kwin.<br>
Sure it will work, it won't work as well as we expect it to work from<br>
a quality perspective though.<br>
<br>
Making ISOs is cheap, making builds is also mostly cheap as all you<br>
need is a machine to build on. BUT, building things for an<br>
architecture we do not need only slows down the overall speed of<br>
publishing binaries (for various reasons).<br>
<br>
All that said, if you manage to find valid reasons for why we would<br>
want to support other architectures, we certainly can as I do have a<br>
pretty good idea of what a multi-architecture build structure would<br>
need to look like (Blue systems mobile CI actually builds amd64 and<br>
armhf).<br>
<br>
HS<br>
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