In my neck of the woods in Canada a lot of 64bit capable computers came
off the store shelves with 32 bit flavours of Microsoft Windows.
This seemed to continue through Win 7, the 8's and I've seen a few cheap
laptops with the 32 bit Windows 10.
I don't know the reasoning, reliability, the devil store techies knew,
or a another way to add variations and dollar difference?
Anyway, I find it conceivable that the owners of such machines may think
they are only 32 bit capable and when venturing into the land of
GNU/Linux grab what they know will work, the 32 bit variation.
Linux is a big brave step into the unknown, especially if you have no
clue as to what hardware is doing the magic. Perhaps some icon that can
be clicked to give a hint of the optimum selection as previously
suggested would help.
FWIW my netbook from 2010 is one of those fused off to make it 32bit
Atoms, slow as heck for somethings, but still sees regular use on
misbehaved networks, so I'm all in cheap and selfish favour of keeping
the 32bit versions available.
Clarke
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