Canonical Is Considering Dropping Support for 32-Bit PCs After Ubuntu 18.10

It's much sooner than 18.10. From the article, "Starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak release, there shouldn't be any 32-bit Desktop and Server ISO images available for download."

Seems like they plan to stop making 32bit ISOs allready from 16.10 and release 32bit as netboot installers only. Then by 18.10 no more 32bit?!

So 32bit netbooters and upgraders will have to move on when 18.04 ends support in 2023? That doesn't sound too bad - time to move on.

My last 32bit system (a Thinkpad R51) didn't support PAE, so effectively stopped being supported by quite a few distros 4 or 5 years ago as their 32bit kernels and installers moved to PAE only.

Ditched ubuntu with 12.04. Linux Mint Debian Edition is all you need.

should you be allergic to systemd, Devuan is pretty nice as well.