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I'm going to drag out my same soapbox: a lot of systems old enough to use DDR3 RAM will have x86_64 v1 or v2 processors. Some projects have already removed support for those, the big one being the RHEL kernel as of RHEL9.
I miss the days when mainstream Linux distros could run on a supercomputer or a toaster and anywhere between.๐ญ
Most still will. Like I'm sure a lot of people are doing, I was trying to reuse old hardware for a new purpose. Perfectly good computer with 16GB of RAM with an AMD A8-3850. I'm not complaining about progress's march towards the future, but I missed the warning signs about the changes. I'm sure some other folks probably did as well.
Back in the day the anywhere between was a lot smaller.
Maybe someone will make a way to use DDR3 in a DDR4 system. :-) Make the impossible possible.