cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bitwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down14cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.selinux@programming.devpcgaming@lemmy.cagaming@lemmy.zip
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkBazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bitwww.gamingonlinux.comcm0002@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square14linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.selinux@programming.devpcgaming@lemmy.cagaming@lemmy.zip
minus-squareZoteTheMightylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 months agoKind of amazing that Steam is a 32 bit-only program on Linux, and everyone is making the Fedora project out to be the bad guy here somehow.
minus-squarekieron115@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoWouldn’t the alternative be losing a LOT of old games on Steam?
minus-squareZoteTheMightylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoThere should be nothing wrong with a 64 bit program launching a 32 bit program. If anything, it sounds like Valve is using that as some sort of “comparability insurance”; if you can run steam, you can run almost all games on steam.
minus-squarekieron115@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoMacOS stopped supporting 32-bit with Catalina and, according to appleinsider.com, older games won’t work on Catalina at all.
minus-squarerdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoThat must be on MacOS programmers. See WOW64.
Kind of amazing that Steam is a 32 bit-only program on Linux, and everyone is making the Fedora project out to be the bad guy here somehow.
Wouldn’t the alternative be losing a LOT of old games on Steam?
There should be nothing wrong with a 64 bit program launching a 32 bit program. If anything, it sounds like Valve is using that as some sort of “comparability insurance”; if you can run steam, you can run almost all games on steam.
MacOS stopped supporting 32-bit with Catalina and, according to appleinsider.com, older games won’t work on Catalina at all.
That must be on MacOS programmers. See WOW64.