But gamers should still be able to run old applications on newer versions of Ubuntu. In a blog post, Canonical said it's been discussing whether or not to support 32-bit x86 internally since 2014.

This list goes over five Linux distributions that still support 32-bit x86 computers, as of June 2025. There aren’t many options left these days, as Fedora and Ubuntu both dropped 32-bit images ...

But there is no denying 32-bit hardware is starting to disappear. Twenty years ago when people were repurposing old Windows PCs as small departmental Linux servers, the PC was maybe 3 or 4 years old.

Canonical's shift away from offering a 32-bit desktop build of Ubuntu comes as the company seeks to focus its efforts on embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) projects where x86-32 is still very ...