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if i understand this correctly, bazzite is like SteamOS but based on fedora. it needs 32-bit support to run wine and steam. i find it hard to believe that fed
by em-bee 1y ago
if i understand this correctly, bazzite is like SteamOS but based on fedora. it needs 32-bit support to run wine and steam.
i find it hard to believe that fedora will drop 32-bit support without ensuring that wine and steam will continue to work. why would they do that? that would not make sense at all.
but there is a lot of backslash on the change discussion: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-d...
so i doubt this will happen until those issues are resolved.
but i am quite confused:
the example given, that eg cpython might drop 32-bit support, should not affect supporting 32-bit for applications that need it, like wine and steam.
i thought that an application that doesn't support 32-bit mode would only prevent it from running on 32-bit machines or running on an OS in 32-bit mode on 64-bit machines, which was dropped 5 years ago. so where is the problem here?
- em-bee 1y agothis article explains a bit more. https://ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i686-support-withdrawal-postponed/ https://ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i686-support-withdrawal-... currently only kernel and installers for 32-bit are dropped, but all packages are still built for 32-bit. why? that too doesn't make much sense either. are they still supporting running on 32-bit systems with an old or custom kernel? what for? so that seems to be the problem then. somehow fedora is still supporting running on 32-bit systems. well, yes. do change that. but that doesn't mean that multilib support needs to be dropped. is there a problem to limit the build of 32-bit packages to only those that are needed?