▲ 434 ▼ Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages (lemmy.ml) submitted 1 year ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world 162 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/93
[–] Mwa 22 points 1 year ago (9 children) Instead of shutting down why not choose another distro base permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (5 children) Probably a lot of time and work to do so, they've spent a lot of time learning what tweaks Fedora needs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Mwa 3 points 1 year ago Makes sense permalink fedilink source parent [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Why not ride streams coat-tails and switch to arch? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Or Debian. It still supports MIPS64 officially and 68K unofficially. x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) I'd not really paid attnetion until this thread and assumed it was an Arch derivative becase of Steam OS. TIL The tiny bit of gaming I do is in my main install is LMDE using Steam, it works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I went from Windows to arch after waiting for a while for steam to release the desktop os. No real problems gaming aside from anti-cheat. permalink fedilink source parent [–] gamer@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago The only notable thing about Bazzite is that it's built on top of Fedora Atomic, making it immutable like SteamOS. Without that, it's just a regular old distro with some opinions about which software should be preinstalled. permalink fedilink source parent [–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 child) That would require redoing everything. It would be a massive project, and honestly since there’s already other gaming oriented distros out there, what would be the point? It’s not like Garuda or PopOS is shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago popos is permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (5 children) Probably a lot of time and work to do so, they've spent a lot of time learning what tweaks Fedora needs. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Mwa 3 points 1 year ago Makes sense permalink fedilink source parent [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Why not ride streams coat-tails and switch to arch? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Or Debian. It still supports MIPS64 officially and 68K unofficially. x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) I'd not really paid attnetion until this thread and assumed it was an Arch derivative becase of Steam OS. TIL The tiny bit of gaming I do is in my main install is LMDE using Steam, it works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I went from Windows to arch after waiting for a while for steam to release the desktop os. No real problems gaming aside from anti-cheat. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) Why not ride streams coat-tails and switch to arch? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Or Debian. It still supports MIPS64 officially and 68K unofficially. x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time. permalink fedilink source parent [–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) I'd not really paid attnetion until this thread and assumed it was an Arch derivative becase of Steam OS. TIL The tiny bit of gaming I do is in my main install is LMDE using Steam, it works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I went from Windows to arch after waiting for a while for steam to release the desktop os. No real problems gaming aside from anti-cheat. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago Or Debian. It still supports MIPS64 officially and 68K unofficially. x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) I'd not really paid attnetion until this thread and assumed it was an Arch derivative becase of Steam OS. TIL The tiny bit of gaming I do is in my main install is LMDE using Steam, it works fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I went from Windows to arch after waiting for a while for steam to release the desktop os. No real problems gaming aside from anti-cheat. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago I went from Windows to arch after waiting for a while for steam to release the desktop os. No real problems gaming aside from anti-cheat. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gamer@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago The only notable thing about Bazzite is that it's built on top of Fedora Atomic, making it immutable like SteamOS. Without that, it's just a regular old distro with some opinions about which software should be preinstalled. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 child) That would require redoing everything. It would be a massive project, and honestly since there’s already other gaming oriented distros out there, what would be the point? It’s not like Garuda or PopOS is shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago popos is permalink fedilink source parent
