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 ...

By Ubuntu 18.10 in October 2018, Canonical would completely end support for 32-bit software and encourage running it in a virtual machine or container instead. Canonical is not the first Linux ...

Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, ... Designed as a simpler alternative to Intel's IA-64 architecture, which is not compatible with 32-bit x86 code, ...

For instance, Windows 11 is exclusively 64-bit, Ubuntu ceased supporting 32-bit PCs in 2018, and macOS transitioned to fully 64-bit in 2011. x86-64v3 essentially adds AVX2, MOVBE, FMA, and some ...

If you're a Linux gamer who prefers Ubuntu, you might want to look for another distribution in the near future. Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu in Steam as of the operating system's ...

Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped "ancient-386-CPUs" support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's ...

The development team over at Docker is porting their container platform to Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) It looks as if pretty soon, Docker containers will be managed across both ...

At its heart, Ubuntu 19.10 uses the 5.3 Linux kernel.This update comes with support for the AMD Navi GPUs and Zhaoxin x86 processors. The new GNOME also lets you organize programs by dragging and ...