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~20% of users are still on 32-bit, how?
by ece 5y ago
~20% of users are still on 32-bit, how?
- picklebutter 5y agoMost likely ignorance, but also maybe: can't afford or don't want to spend money on new hardware when the old one still works (this is a stretch but possible still), don't see the need for 64-bit, and I'm sure a few other reasons that elude me.
- agurk 5y agoThe company I'm currently doing some work for has all the main applications as 32-bit running on 64-bit Windows. I have no idea why, but thankfully Firefox is part of the standard build so at least some of the people here will be showing up on this list involuntarily.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoYeah, I've certainly known people who just kept using the computer until it broke. We're talking 7 year old machines with the last major change being when Windows force updated itself to 10.
- magicalhippo 5y agoActually just yesterday I was thinking maybe I could get 32bit Firefox to run on Linux instead of 64bit, so that there's a hard-cap to how much memory it uses (per process)... would be a less invasive option than disabling swapping like I'm currently doing.
- coldpie 5y agoCheck out cgroups(7).
- Narishma 5y agoI still use a 32-bit Atom netbook from a decade ago daily.
- cptskippy 5y agoMicrosoft offered a 32 bit version of Windows 10 up until May of last year. 20% of users will still on Windows 7. I'm surprised the number is as low as it is.