Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit host systems

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:36:41AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> Which 32-bit hosts are still useful, and why?
>
>
> Citing my previous mail:
>
>    I now checked all downloads of the latests installers since 2022-12-30.
>
>    qemu-w32-setup-20221230.exe – 509 different IP addresses
>    qemu-w64-setup-20221230.exe - 5471 different IP addresses
>
>    339 unique IP addresses are common for 32- and 64-bit, either
>    crawlers or people who simply got both variants. So there remain 170
>    IP addresses which only downloaded the 32-bit variant in the last week.
>
>    I see 437 different strings for the browser type, but surprisingly
>    none of them looks like a crawler.
>
> So there still seems to be a certain small need for QEMU installers for 32-bit Windows: 170 users für 32 bit only, 339 users for both 32 and 64 bit, 5132 users for 64 bit only.

Actual data is always welcome!

I wonder, though...  given how decrepit 32-bit-only PCs must now be, and
how well Windows 10 (the only version still supporting them) runs on
these, how many downloaders of the w32 version could (and quite probably
should) use the w64 version instead?