cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bitwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down14cross-posted to: gaming@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareZoteTheMighty@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 day agoKind 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.
minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoSteam is just one if the things that would break. It’s more than just gamers pushing back against this. I wish people would read the discussion on the Fedora forum…
minus-squareXNX@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoCan you post the discussion you mean?
minus-squarekieron115@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWouldn’t the alternative be losing a LOT of old games on Steam?
minus-squareZoteTheMighty@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoThere should be nothing wrong with a 64 bit program launching a 32 bit program. If anything, it sounds like Valve is using that as some sort of “comparability insurance”; if you can run steam, you can run almost all games on steam.
minus-squarekieron115@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoMacOS stopped supporting 32-bit with Catalina and, according to appleinsider.com, older games won’t work on Catalina at all.
minus-squarerdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoThat must be on MacOS programmers. See WOW64.
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.
Steam is just one if the things that would break. It’s more than just gamers pushing back against this.
I wish people would read the discussion on the Fedora forum…
Can you post the discussion you mean?
Wouldn’t the alternative be losing a LOT of old games on Steam?
There should be nothing wrong with a 64 bit program launching a 32 bit program. If anything, it sounds like Valve is using that as some sort of “comparability insurance”; if you can run steam, you can run almost all games on steam.
MacOS stopped supporting 32-bit with Catalina and, according to appleinsider.com, older games won’t work on Catalina at all.
That must be on MacOS programmers. See WOW64.