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F44 Change Proposal to Drop 32-bit support has been Withdrawn (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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I am disappointed in some of the reactions this !! proposal !! has received, with some people apparently reading it in the most uncharitable way. It was a proposal that tried to address technical problems package maintainers and release engineering is facing, not some conspiracy to break the “gaming use case”.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Steam itself isn't the issue, it's all the 32bit games. They could've done this move ages ago but didn't because if steam runs, games have a chance of running.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Steam itself is an issue, to be clear. It's unknown how much of a lift it will be to migrate steam from a 32 bit binary to a 64 bit. It should be basically zero, but who the fuck knows.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sure. Steam just isn't the big issue. They've already done a 64bit conversion. Steam for Mac is 64bit. Because they dropped 32bit support at macos 10.15 or so.

    My guess is that everywhere else it's staying 32bit to be a canary for 32bit games.

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