Are you fucking kidding? I just switched to bazzite from Mint after dropping windows.

All the issues bazzite has with the Steam flatpak are solved by this AppImage

Bazzite shutting down would be tragic ( for me ). I've been quite happy with it. Slowly convincing people to switch. Bazzite was also a relatively low step compared to fixing them a standard distro as all the stuff they want/need is already readily available.

Telling people I decided to promote another distro because the old one stopped is only going to make me have to restart my efforts with an additional hurdle ( how do you know this one won't stop ).

I tried a few distros. But I didn't like garuda very much, nobara was okay'ish. Bazzite really clicked for some reason, despite needing a bit of getting used to.

I'd hate to go distro hunting again. Or try and update cpu schedulers and not brick the whole system.

Kind of amazing that Steam is a 32 bit-only program on Linux, and everyone is making the Fedora project out to be the bad guy here somehow.

Can someone Eli5 egg 32 bit architectuur is still a thing? Why should Steam be still in 32 ?

Idk how to feel about this.

Steamos is based on arch and also immutable. Can't they do something like that. Never liked bazzite cause it was fedora based. I feel like any gaming distro should be arch based and making it immutable would fix the arch breaking fear.

Why is everyone downvoting? It's not really a stupid question when they apparently already tried it.

Hope they figure this out.

Bazzite is an awesome project.

I don't see it happening, ubuntu tried and backed out last second years ago. Project mangers just get fussy about putting in resources they don't directly see the use of. It's like that new manger you get that thinks they should remove all these processes as they don't see the use with them. Then slowly as they learn the hard way add all of them back.

Just a heads up, you can vote one what you think about Fedoras proposed change. They may not listen to it but it doesn't take much effort to let them know what you think about it. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

A lot of apps and most games out there are 32 bit and need 32 bit support, trying to pull an Apple is naturally going to be unpopular and unproductive. This is one of those things about Linux and Linux development which is inherently problematic, which is the seemingly severe aversion to legacy support, despite the fact that Linux is often praised for running on older, less capable hardware, as well as taking better advantage of current gen hardware.

I don't even know why this is even being discussed, it's an awful idea and should never be implemented.

That would definitely suck.

I just recently went over to Bazzite as a former long time Windows user, and I've been enjoying it more than I thought I would. It'd be a shame if I have to go and look for another OS that would work well for me

What's even the argument for dropping 32-bit support? Just developer experience?

I'll be gutted, bazzite feels like my forever distro and I really don't want to give up atomic either!

Well, sucks for them, but why fedora should do it?

Didn't Ubuntu propose the same a while ago and had to step back because of all the backslash?

Is the change coming from Red Had this time? They're enterprise only so it's possible they don't care about home users whom are the ones still in need of 32bit libraries, I think big enterprises would use Windows virtual machines for that.

I'm not personally impacted since I use Linux MX on my gaming desktop (Debian based) and Debian stood up during the Ubuntu debacle to state they have no intention whatsoever to remove 32bit libraries in the foreseeable future, but it's certainly a blow for a lot of people, I hope Fedora change their mind about it.

Not that this is the final word on the matter, but it is perhaps hopeful that a plurality of voters are strongly opposed at present.

Can someone enlighten me on how such communities plan to deal with the 2038 problem? Is it even relevant to them?