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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

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We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages.
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    Doesn’t Steam run basically everything, including the client itself, inside the Steam Container Runtime now? No Steam games, native or not, use the system libraries anymore. I know I occasionally need to wait a couple of seconds after an update for it to update the Steam Container Runtime before even starting the client, which makes me think that they run the client in the container as well. I think the only real 32-bit dependency it has on the system is the user space graphics driver.

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    Just went and voted against. You should too.

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      https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

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        https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

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    Damnit I just installed Fedora and it’s the best experience I’ve had lately. Works better than Bazzite and Cachy. Sigh.

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      Bazzite is Fedora tho?..

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        It is a modified version of their immutable variant and it runs poorly on my hardware. 🤷‍♂️

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      It’s really unlikely this will become an issue. Especially not one without an easy solution. Fedora is a very popular distro.

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    I’ve been running Steam as a Flatpak for a long time, it works just fine regardless of the underlying distro. Don’t panic.

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    Fedora wishes to push people who have x32 programs away from them. Check.

    Edit: put a x in front of 32 for the ones who don’t understand what it means without the x.

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      They might even have 33.

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