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Steam has a lot of 32bit only games. And it relies on WINE to run them. I doubt they have 64bit version of all their popular games. That is why windows is king
by Illniyar 7y ago
Steam has a lot of 32bit only games. And it relies on WINE to run them. I doubt they have 64bit version of all their popular games.
That is why windows is king for so long - the thought of dropping backward compatibility is unthinkable. Instead you do horrendous hacks to get things to work (such as having two different system folders - 1 for 32 bit executables and one for 64bit executables)
- bpfrh 7y agoMicrosoft made a hardcut with drivers on windows 7/8. The same will be done eventually for 32bit, just not now.
- jplayer01 7y agoYeah, they're not going to drop 32-bit for the foreseeable future. They see the value in backwards compatibility, despite HN readers continuously criticizing them for the lengths they go to accomplish it, or straight up ignoring how much effort they've put into it. There's too much software that is only 32-bit, particularly in businesses, for it to be anything other than an ideological argument for "purity".
- thebitrot 7y agodoesn't microsoft also need to keep 32 bit windows so companies can run 16-bit software if they need to?
- badsectoracula 7y agoConsidering new software is released as 32bit only as recently as today, this "eventually" will only come if PCs stop using CPUs from the Intel 8086 lineage.