Because some users still have 32-bit computers. How is this not obvious?
He's talking like there are people with 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness or spite.
He's talking like there are people with 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness or spite.
I wiped the computer and installed a 64-bit OS, but there are definitely people out there selling 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness.
It was funny, because the only XP image they had was 32 bit. So we had really new PCs (Dells that are now 5-7 years old) running on these 32bit machines, with no choice by their IT staff: they couldn't make a new image (was a "global IT" thing).
So, they gave us a Windows 7 image that was only 32bit. Fun getting that one sorted before it was on everyone's PCs.
It is completely not obvious that there are Windows 10 users with 32-bit computers.
Here's an analysis from Debian trying to figure out whether to default to the 64-bit image: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00059.html
No one installs i386 new -- machines that are non-amd64-capable are:
* mainstream machines from 2004 and earlier
* a brief wave of mobile devices, now thankfully gone
* deeply embedded, usually incapable of running [the standard Debian installer]
> He's talking like there are people with 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness or spite.
Cause this is what's going on, he's stating that explicitly.