On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:14:25PM +0200, Alexi Funkner wrote:

Hi,

in case you want to upgrade your i686 system to a x86 one, there are usually migration instruction on arch compatible websites. For example this one is how to move from arch gnu/linux x86 to a completely free distribution called parabola.

https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration_from_the_GNU/Linux_distribution_of_Arch

moving to other architectures (for example i686 to x86, since ARM would not make any sense) is completely analogous.

I really hope that I got your question right, and was able to help.

Best Alex

So there are three problems here. The first is top-posting, please avoid it in the future. The second is the thinly-veiled distro sniping. Honestly, I would have let it go were it anything but Parabola. Because what you're then doing is the third problem, encouraging them to go to a migration page which reads thusly: Step 1: Change your mirrors Step 2: Replace your repos and packages Step 3: Update your bootloader Step 4: Congratulations, you're screwed because we didn't mention until the post-installation blurb that you now have a free system without non-free firmware and drivers and some of your hardware may now be broken! Step 4 is to go out and buy a new wifi dongle and/or video card. Libre distros are fine. This seems pretty ill-advised.