Linux Mint 20 ditches 32-bit support

Posted on Wednesday, July 03 2019 @ 10:09 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Slowly but surely, support for 32-bit hardware is coming to an end. Ubuntu will ditch 32-bit support in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and now Clem Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project,confirms Linux Mint 20 will also exclusively support 64-bit hardware.

In the blog post, Lefebvre said he believes most people are happy with the decision to drop 32-bit versions and that it makes sense in 2020. Computers with a 64-bit processor have been on the market since 2003, and most of the computers that have shipped in this decade are 64-bit ready (except several infernal netbooks).

Users still running Mint on 32-bit hardware can use Linux Mint 19, 19.1, 19.2, or 19.3 until their end-of-life date in 2023.

Via: Neowin

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