Because a lot of distros benefit from running on people's old laptops and having two variants means 2x the QA efforts.
I’m surprised there aren’t more/any? binary package based distros that ship more variants than i686 and whatever x86_64 is now. 2008 is 12 years ago, it seems reasonable for there to be a variant optimised for CPUs released in the last 10 years.https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1227399122405036032 …
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I didn't suggest dropping the existing CPU profile. I think it's likely an x86_64 with SSE4.2 profile would have more users than some of the architectures that are supported by some distros already, and that effort is deemed worthy.
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