As soon as my hardware allowed I moved on, by Win7 64 bit was sorted
Running the 32 bit Debian Raspbian was hard work because very little uses 32bit on Linux, I had to build from source a lot of the time, 32 bit Linux is a total waste time for a desktop or laptop, considering they is lite versions of most distro's, my laptop uses less the 400meg for the system compared to 2gb for Windows 10, my i7 is awesome on Linux its just I need Windows for my work .
Visionaire Studio is getting better and better on Linux, Krita or Gimp for art, Blender works effortlessly on this old laptop, so all the software one would need is up to date so why bother with 32bit if the system supports it?
I Tried Truspace which was my modeler of choice in my 32 bit days and I don't know how I coped with so little available ram.