Yeh. Ubuntu also discussed it back in 2019, and wound up keeping some of it so Steam would keep working.
I expect the willingness to bend over backwards for one proprietary and very profitable app doesn’t last forever, and given how involved gaming often is with pushing technology, it’s frankly weird that Steam is still shackled to 32bit like that.
Fedora is discussing dropping support entirely, right? Interesting times we live in…
Does it affect you somehow? I don’t know anyone still running 32-bit systems.
Steam, as mentioned, and an old iMac that I’ve been meaning to dual-boot for a while.
This kind of thing is mostly inevitable, but has an impact on software and game preservation.
The Steam launcher is one very popular Linux app which needs a 32 bits arch apparently.
Just to be clear: it is only the GNU toolchain for which the 32-bit target is being demoted, not the MSVC toolchain.
Yeh. Ubuntu also discussed it back in 2019, and wound up keeping some of it so Steam would keep working.
I expect the willingness to bend over backwards for one proprietary and very profitable app doesn’t last forever, and given how involved gaming often is with pushing technology, it’s frankly weird that Steam is still shackled to 32bit like that.