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Distribution: Mainly Devuan, antiX, & Void, with Tiny Core, Fatdog, & BSD thrown in.
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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.
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).
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.
Distribution: Cinnamon Mint 20.1 (Laptop) and 20.2 (Desktop)
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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.
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.
Last edited by Mike_Walsh; 11-28-2019 at 06:10 PM.
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