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Arch Linux joins the growing list of Linux distributions that terminated support for 32-bit systems.
Arch Linux has ended support for i686 architecture i.e 32-bit systems. This is not a sudden decision because an announcement was made in January this year. Decreasing popularity was cited as the driving factor behind this decision: “Due to the decreasing popularity of i686 among the developers and the community, we have decided to phase out the support of this architecture.”

I completely understand that maintaining more architectures takes a lot of work, but this trend is a bit worrying to me because 32bit computers are still very widespread.