@[email protected] to Linux [email protected]English • 15 days agoBazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packageslemmy.mlimagemessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1435arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1425arrow-down1imageBazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packageslemmy.ml@[email protected] to Linux [email protected]English • 15 days agomessage-square167fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•13 days agoNote that this is just a proposal that the Fedora community wants feedback on. Even if it does go ahead, this is minimum 1 year away from happening. Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if this was meant as a “hurry up and move away from Steam still being a 32-bit app, Valve!” bit of brinkmanship.
minus-squarem-p{3}linkfedilinkEnglish2•13 days agoI thought the Steam Linux client was already native 64-bit? If not, maybe this is the kind of push needed to get them to actually go full 64-bit?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-213 days agoIt’s still 32bit. i’ve heard it guessed that Valve does this on purpose because so many games are still 32bit and Wine/Proton/etc aren’t fully compatible yet. What does it matter if Steam works and most of the Steam library does not.
minus-squarem-p{3}linkfedilinkEnglish2•12 days agoSeems like a good reason for the Wine / Proton WoW64 subsystem to improve.
Note that this is just a proposal that the Fedora community wants feedback on.
Even if it does go ahead, this is minimum 1 year away from happening.
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if this was meant as a “hurry up and move away from Steam still being a 32-bit app, Valve!” bit of brinkmanship.
I thought the Steam Linux client was already native 64-bit?
If not, maybe this is the kind of push needed to get them to actually go full 64-bit?
It’s still 32bit. i’ve heard it guessed that Valve does this on purpose because so many games are still 32bit and Wine/Proton/etc aren’t fully compatible yet. What does it matter if Steam works and most of the Steam library does not.
Seems like a good reason for the Wine / Proton WoW64 subsystem to improve.