One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from 90s era PC hardware to Arm based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to decades of combined effort from hardware manufacturers and motivated community members. But nothing can last forever, and for a few years now, Linux maintainers including Linus Torvalds have been pushing to drop kernel support for Intels 80486 processor. This chip was originally introduced in 1989, was...
