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What happens to old software? How do you run 32-bit Linux apps? How do you run 32-bit Windows apps like VST plugins (audio effects)?

• fpoling 1y ago
  Use VM to run old distros or old Windows.
  • tapoxi 1y ago
    You don't need a VM, just a container. Steam runs all games in containers anyway: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/blob/main/docs/container-runtime.md https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...
    • fpoling 1y ago
      Containers will not help if the kernel will not run 32-bit binaries.
      • tapoxi 1y ago
        Why would the kernel not run 32-bit binaries? They're talking about removing libraries only, not removing 32-bit support from the kernel.
• Scion9066 1y ago
  For Windows apps there's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64
• em-bee 1y ago
  you (fedora that is) build the libraries needed by 32-bit application. you stop building everything else, but you keep multilib support. that's what this proposal got wrong. it should have been only about stopping to build the 10.000 packages that nobody needs for 32-bit support.