32bit ARMv7 is arguably better supported these days. Plenty of people still use smartphones with this arch, and software is widely available (you didn't say it had to be x86!).
I can't recall my last 'real' i386 processor, I switched as soon as possible to one of the first AMDs to support 64 bit. I wonder, which 32bit x86 computer do you use which is still working? It must be old, at least a decade. Last Intel made 32bit, there were a few 32bit atom notebooks about a decade ago, but I recall these were rather weak even at the time?
Yep, I imagine ARMv7 is still used a lot. I used a ThinkPad T60 with the intel core duo T2300, so from 2006. I had used debian on it, and it now runs openbsd.
Also have one on my desk to run one as a minimal terminal in case my "real" machine goes down, so i can have my keyboard and trackball and comfortable desk arrangement to work with even while fixing the bigger system. I manage to need that one once every 6 months or so, for some reason or another.
I think I shut down my last 32bit x86 system in 2019. It was a laptop that had been serving as a home lan router / firewall / file server for almost a decade.
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Also have one on my desk to run one as a minimal terminal in case my "real" machine goes down, so i can have my keyboard and trackball and comfortable desk arrangement to work with even while fixing the bigger system. I manage to need that one once every 6 months or so, for some reason or another.
I think I shut down my last 32bit x86 system in 2019. It was a laptop that had been serving as a home lan router / firewall / file server for almost a decade.