• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It isn’t easy, but this isn’t about the hardware. It’s about the software packages. Tons of software meant to run on 32-bit hasn’t been updated to run on 64-bit natively. Thus the burden of keeping a lot of packages that serve as backwards compatibility.

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      10 hours ago

      True, yeah I read that too. Started as a hardware thing but now it’s a “this is the state of things as a result of things that were hard to change” thing.