On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > > I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > soon. Why? We should be strongly encouraging users to move away from > it as a main architecture. If they're still installing i386 on 64-bit > hardware, then that's a horrible mistake. If they're still running > i386 *hardware*, then they should be replacing that hardware with more > modern, more capable, more *efficient* stuff.
Do we know how often the i386 installer is downloaded compared to amd64, and could/should we start with updated messaging where those are provided before removing users' ability to install on their systems? (i386 remains the second-most-popular architecture behind amd64 today going by popcon[1] stats - perhaps a lot of that is people using i386 as a compatibility architecture only, but it'd be nice to be reasonably confident about that) [1] - https://popcon.debian.org/
