i wish we could vote for multiple selections:
i have a nexus-7 which runs cyanogenmod (arm)
2 raspberry-pi's (arm)
and a few pc's (x86-64)

64bit for everyday

32bit mainly because I use an ancient Puppy as a quick-and-dirty boot disk

PPC because I've poked at getting something to run on the G4, so far without success, but that thing is dumb as rocks.

Started out on 32bit, (only one left now), went to 64bit PCs, & now using ARM as well on RPi3A+/3B/3B+ & will have it on my RPi4B/4GB, when they get their software drivers sorted out.

Also have 64bit running on a converted chromebook.

I have used linux mint 18.x and currently using ubuntu 1804 on my thinkpad t520 and t420 for about a year. My old HP quad core is my Linux evaluation pc. Both of the laptops I purchased for a distrbution. I am planning to offer linux as an alternative for people on a budget.

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Hi,

I use X86-32 & X86-64 on different machines. I have several older Laptops and still use them when needed. My active Laptop is a Dell XPS-701 Intel corei7 and hopefully will remain in use for the long term. It is now 5 years old and stable using Slackware64 14.2 & Slackware64 -current (dual boot).

Have fun & enjoy Slackware!
:hattip:

My main machine could have been x86_64 (it is a Core 2 Duo), but because of lack of RAM I run 32-bit Slackware on it - to keep up compatibility with some 32-bit only applications I got. The 2nd (older) machine can only run 32-bit as it has less then 1 GB of RAM (and no way to extend it, it is too old for that).
But now I can compile applications on the older machine and run them on both.

Now I'm considering moving to ARM64 for one of my computers.

Couple of 32 bit Netbooks (original EEEPC with the Celeron processor plus its Intel Atom cousin)
64 bit home brew AMD box plus my current 64 bit Xeon HP Workstation.

A couple of Android phones and an old Nexus 7 (2012) tablet I've just downgraded to 4.4.4 KitKat. Now usable again!

Had about six months of fun loading Gentoo Sparc linux on a Sun Ultra 2 workstation (2 x 400MHz processors) plus a headless Ultra 5. Very good exercise for learning linux. I kept screwing up the Kernel config file; you eventually learn after the SCSI interface or something else is found to be missing after an overnight kernel compilation! :( Both Items relegated to the dump a few years ago after requests from my Wife to Spring clean the Man Cave.

Play Bonny!

:hattip:

32-bit (x86-32) by choice.

My ancient, 17-yr old Dell lappie; no option - 32-bit, non-HT Pentium 4 CPU. (*shrug*)

My main rig has a dual-core Athlon 64.....but this is really ancient first-gen silicon, and I run a kennels of 32-bit Puppies on it by choice, since they're kinder to the aging hardware.

I run a single 64-bit Puppy, on which I build the community versions of up-to-date Google Chrome (but that's the only reason). The remainder of the kennels run the 32-bit version of Iron.

By and large, the 32-bit Puppies are so fast on this hardware, and so easy in their demands, that I shall probably remain with them until the mobo expires.....


Mike. ;)