Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages
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I went to Garuda
THERE'S DOZENS OF US, DOZENS!!
Hell yeah brother, make it 11 of us!
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Instead of shutting down why not choose another distro base
Probably a lot of time and work to do so, they've spent a lot of time learning what tweaks Fedora needs.
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Honestly go for EnOS. Garuda is neat and has a good default setup, but they've gone a little far with their modifications imo
There is a lite version, but sure whatever you prefer.
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Until they distro hop back to Windows because they just want shit to work.
Skill issue.
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See. This is why I game only on Windows. There’s never any controversy or issues there. /s
I’ll see myself out now.
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The comments in the thread don't mention Steam itself, but it's that running all the 32 bit games will become a problem. Steam's flatpak packages the 32 bit packages so that can get around this change, but the flatpak is not official and does not support all features. Steam themselves only provide the RPM for Fedora.
What features are missing on flatpak version? I am playing games that way without any issues...
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Pop! OS with big screen mode on second display/workspace is the best of both worlds.
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Hell yeah brother, make it 11 of us!
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god these names just sound the fucking same, garudo nobara banuda ronada, talking about linux gaming distros is liable to summon a demon
I guarantee you will summon a number of daemons running any of them though!
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It seems to me that 16-bit applications are already basically broken with 32-bit wine if you're running a 64-bit kernel, by default it places extra restrictions over what the hardware already does to prevent apps from loading 16-bit code entirely.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ#16-bit-applications-fail-to-start
Guessing that's why they don't feel it's that important to continue supporting, seems a VM is the future for these apps.
Yeah most 16 bit stuff is old enough that there's already a mature reimplementation of the game engine or old enough that it'll run nicely in a translation layer or VM
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where we goin
Over there!
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watchu talkin bout mate
Red hat is owned by IBM which is a Nazi enabling mega corpo
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I go with CachyOs
Ik ik the compiler optimizations only give a minor difference and maybe major in latency but am just comfy with it.
I just like how minimal is the distroMy go-to too.
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Genuinely funny comment, thank you.
bapacka balunch
bapick banick..
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Honestly go for EnOS. Garuda is neat and has a good default setup, but they've gone a little far with their modifications imo
Oh? I'm still a Linux noob, educate me.
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Probably a lot of time and work to do so, they've spent a lot of time learning what tweaks Fedora needs.
Makes sense
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I think I can hear Bringus sobbing somewhere
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Ugghhh, I just got it set up with arr stack on my media computer. Can someone more familiar with the trajectory of the project tell me the odds of this actually happening? Or is it more of a PR move to get people's attention on the Fedora project?
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Yes, and from what I understood:
- Steam is still 32bit. Two-thirds of Bazzite's user base use the OS on handhelds requiring Steam's gaming mode front-end. Installing Steam as a flatpak removes the ability to boot into gaming mode, and so alienating two-thirds of Bazzite's user base.
- It will kill support for older games that are still 32bit. Wine's WoW64 isn't ready yet, and even so, building custom Proton for 32bit support (e.g. Including all the 32bit libraries inside of Proton itself) on top of the Proton provided by Valve is going to be very messy.
- OBS requires 32bit packages to capture video data from 32bit games. If 32bit is no longer supported, this'll kill streamers playing older games (OBS is probably the most widely used software by streamers and game recorders).
- It would kill VR on Bazzite, as VR still makes use of 32bit features (I'm not sure why or which ones, but that's what's said).
Oh wow, if steam is still 32 bit, forget the offshoots, fedora itself won't be worth using. I'm on fedora but if I can't run steam, then I'm finding a new distro.
On the flip side, what's the reason they want to drop 32-bit support, given steam depends on it, which they should understand means it's integral to the size of their current userbase?
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Probably a lot of time and work to do so, they've spent a lot of time learning what tweaks Fedora needs.
Why not ride streams coat-tails and switch to arch?
