32 vs 64 bit Vivaldi.
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hello,
I saw that, with Vivaldi 1.10 32bit support is suspended. Anybody knows why, or it will back in product?
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@JSJB Yes. Chromium does. And Vivaldi wants to keep it, too. But changes to the chromium 59 code, which Vivaldi recently took in, made it devilishly hard to compile a 32-bit version of Vivaldi for Linux. Hence, in the latest snapshot, there is no 32-bit Linux version. Vivaldi's aim is to support the oldest hardware it can, including all 32-bit systems running Linux, but chromium has thrown a monkey wrench in the works, and Vivaldi is trying to fix it.
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@JSJB I don't know. I know the Vivaldi devs tried to compile a 32-bit version and couldn't. If it is now the case that 32-bit Chromium for Linux can no longer be compiled, we'll learn that soon enough. It would be a shame.
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If there will be question which version drop, in general, for sure drop 32bit. It may be tough step, but otherwise things will not move furher. How long we have full 64bit OS? 10+ years? And most of software is still 32bit. I haven't seen running PC with 32 bit Linux. Even friends which were blidnly trying to install Linux, were installing 64bit versions. In company sphere, for sure we everywhere are using 64bit.
On Windows, I prefer also 64bit software becase 32bit software runs in emulation on 64bit OS (see WoW64 details on MSDN), there must be twice DLL's loaded, running processes etc. A lot of garbage, which must be present because of compatibility. And by droping 64bit version as somebody here mentioned, will not help to get rid of that. 64bit is the future.
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@Gwen-Dragon I have Asus EEE PC with Atom stored in the drawer, because its only proper thing which Atom can do properly :). I tried there minimal Fedora 32bit installation with XFCE few years ago, which tooks <100MB of Ram, and it was pain to use.
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