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Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages (lemmy.ml)
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https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/93

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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

God fucking damnit, I finally find a Linux OS that gels with me and I find this shit....

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Note that this is just a proposal that the Fedora community wants feedback on.

    Even if it does go ahead, this is minimum 1 year away from happening.

    Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was meant as a "hurry up and move away from Steam still being a 32-bit app, Valve!" bit of brinkmanship.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought the Steam Linux client was already native 64-bit?
    If not, maybe this is the kind of push needed to get them to actually go full 64-bit?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It’s still 32bit. i’ve heard it guessed that Valve does this on purpose because so many games are still 32bit and Wine/Proton/etc aren’t fully compatible yet. What does it matter if Steam works and most of the Steam library does not.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If this happens, give Fedora itself a try. The only issue I've had with it is that my video card drivers didnt work right out of the gate and took a little bit of playing to get perfect.

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