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Steam for linux is heavily dependent on WINE. WINE has been reluctant to move to 64 bit because, as I understand it, it will mean that 32 bit executable(which a
by Illniyar 7y ago
Steam for linux is heavily dependent on WINE. WINE has been reluctant to move to 64 bit because, as I understand it, it will mean that 32 bit executable(which are the majority of games they support, I think) won't be able to run with it[0].
At least that's how I understand it. It's more about the issues with backward compatibility then inability to create a 64bit version.
[0]- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-June/147869.html https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-June/147869...
- donio 7y agoWine has had 64 support for ages. A typical wine installation is multi-arch, supporting both 64 and 32 bit windows programs which is very important because running older 32 bit only programs is a huge use case for wine. The post you linked seems to be about the difficulty of packaging the 32 bit support for 64 bit only ubuntu.