Good evening everyone. I have an old Acer TravelMate 6293 laptop with an Intel Core2Duo P8400 CPU at 2.27 GHz and a maximum of 4 GB of installable RAM. I have a 128 GB SSD for storage.
With openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE is doing great. Gnome works fine with DE too but I feel comfortable with KDE.
My question is: is there a real risk that my now obsolete platform will be abandoned in the next kernel updates? I read some time ago that Fedora was abandoning support for old CPUs, and mine is probably one of them. Will openSUSE Tumbleweed also abandon support for these CPUs/GPUs?
Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide me with information.
Mauro
There was discussion quite some months back on Factory mailing list, and dropping Core2Duo support won’t be happening in the foreseeable future. I have a whole bunch saved by that decision, including 3 E8400s, older Core2Duos, and P4s. 
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Thank you, your answer relieves me.
I was tempted to try Fedora in dual-boot. Do you know if Fedora has already abandoned support for these old architectures?
I know it hasn’t, and I haven’t heard about any such plans.
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Where? Link, please.
Chapter 2. Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 is distributed with the kernel version 5.14.0-362.8.1, which provides support for the following architectures at the minimum required version:
AMD and Intel 64-bit architectures (x86-64-v2)
The 64-bit ARM architecture (ARMv8.0-A)
IBM Power Systems, Little Endian (POWER9)
64-bit IBM Z (z14)
Fedora developers discuss transition to x86-64-v2.
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So, I understand that my Intel P8400 Core2Duo CPU is not compatible with these instructions.
in fact I tested Fedora 39 and it is a continuous number of notifications for kernel irq errors (I have never had problems with openSUSE TW)
I have F39 working fine on 6-7 PCs with Core2Duo, 2-3 with PentiumD, and none with those CPU classes that are not OK, same as with TW on the very same PCs and others.
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I have a Intel NUC 12 with core i5 and old laptop Acer. In my laptop Fedora 39 always gave me problems. With the 39 beta it deleted my Windows 10pro installation. But it was my fault: I shouldn’t have trusted the beta in the dual boot configuration. I have had various OPENSUSE TW, SR and Leap always flawless. I tried Fedora again and it always gave me problems with the integrated Intel wifi card. Now with this continuous reporting of irq kernel errors… I have decided to go back to TW only. I can’t every 2/3 updates restart a snapshot to restore Fedora. I have 7 VMs with Fedora KDE, TW with Gnome, TW KDE, TW LXqt and TW Xfce. Fedora is a nice distro but unpredictable, at least with my hardware. And above all it is heavier than other distros, in my modest experience. This morning I tried openSUSE LXqt and Lubuntu in VM for the first time. They are really fast…