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by anoother 3534 days ago
I really, really wish they would release this for 32-bit Windows 10. Let me explain...

I bought a laptop with W10, mainly to use WSfL on it. Only after updating to the insider preview and then scratching my head for a bit, did I learn that WSfL is only available for 64-bit Windows. The laptop, however (Bay Trail-based), has a 32-bit UEFI, with which 64-bit Windows refuses to install.

I'm dual-booting (amd64) Arch for now; the first distro whose installer played nicely with the funky UEFI setup _and_ F2FS. But I'm really impressed with the W10 on this laptop. If only it could provide a native UNIX experience...

2 comments

I wish microsoft would stop producing 32 bit windows, its just an excuse for hardware manufactures to get away with pre-loading windows on sub-standard hardware.
I hope that Arch will take off on WSL [1], it's early stages still but it would be good to not be limited to ubuntu.

1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/3120888/open-source-tools/n...