On 2025-09-16, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > i386 vs amd64...yeah, if amd64 works on this machine, use it, unless you have > a > compelling reason not to. MIGHT solve your problem...keep in mind, i386 is > now > really a legacy platform, and doesn't receive as much use (and thus, testing) > as > amd64 at this time.
also i386 is significantly down on the number of available packages compared to amd64/aarch64 (2000 less out of around 12000, largely because rust is unavailable due to high memory use in the compiler)

