From Whonix ™ 14 onward, only 64-bit builds are available for download.

^[1] This decision is based on several factors:

Distributions are increasingly dropping support for 32-bit systems (including Debian). ^[2]
Only a small minority of users are stuck with older hardware that will not support 64-bit builds. ^[3]
It is a significant maintenance burden for Whonix ™ to maintain both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. ^[4]
Users could attempt to build a 32-bit version of Whonix ™ from source code, by appending the Whonix ™ build script parameter --arch i386.
Statistics: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/8183
Forum Discussion: https://forums.whonix.org/t/state-of-offical-64-bit-builds
See additional information in the footnote. ^[5]

Footnotes[edit]

↑ https://phabricator.whonix.org/T91
↑
- https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-686-For-i386-CPUs
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00589.html
↑ For example in Tails, less than 10% of users had 32-bit kernels in late 2016.
↑ That is, Whonix ™ would need to maintain 10 images instead of the current 6 images.
↑ Previously, Non-Qubes-Whonix 13 users (deprecated) who relied on 32-bit (i686) hardware were still able to use Whonix ™ 14 by using the upgrade instructions. This was because none of the Whonix ™ packages were made 64-bit only. A similar procedure is no longer possible, but interested readers can refer to this phabricator entry and forum post.

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[1] ttps://phabricator.whonix.org/T91

[2] 
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-686-For-i386-CPUs

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00589.html

[3] ttps://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-686-For-i386-CPUs

[4] ttps://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00589.html

[3] For example in Tails, less than 10% of users had 32-bit kernels in late 2016.

[4] That is, Whonix ™ would need to maintain 10 images instead of the current 6 images.

[5] Previously, Non-Qubes-Whonix 13 users (deprecated) who relied on 32-bit (i686) hardware were still able to use Whonix ™ 14 by using the upgrade instructions. This was because none of the Whonix ™ packages were made 64-bit only. A similar procedure is no longer possible, but interested readers can refer to this phabricator entry and forum post.

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