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It's absolutely hilarious
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
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Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#12Nothing is stopping apps from shipping with 32 bit libraries if they need them. This isn't like what happened with ARM where processors dropped support for 32 bit code.
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
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It may not look like it, but I say the opposite is true and FreeBSD is unviable for the desktop. I skip to provide even a scintilla of an thought why that would be tho.
See how well discourse works when I make a bold claim and leave filling out the blanks as an exercise to the reader?
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
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Current FreeBSD 14 is the latest branch to support x86 32-bit. The upcoming 15 won't support it.
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#15Nothing is stopping apps from shipping with 32 bit libraries if they need them. This isn't like what happened with ARM where processors dropped support for 32 bit code.
Obvious stoppers: man power, expertise, incompatibilities,...
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#16So they want Fedora and/or Valve to do their work for them. Gotcha.
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#17Nothing is stopping apps from shipping with 32 bit libraries if they need them. This isn't like what happened with ARM where processors dropped support for 32 bit code.
Obvious stoppers: man power, expertise, incompatibilities,...
Most 32 bit dependencies would not need to be upgraded. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is for the graphics driver.
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#18Seems like an extreme response… other distros still exist. Plus they can still ship the 32bit binaries themselves. Fedora isn’t preventing you from using 32bit libs- fedora is just saying “hey we aren’t going to invest energy in maintaining something just 5% of our users use.”
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#19Seems like an extreme response… other distros still exist. Plus they can still ship the 32bit binaries themselves. Fedora isn’t preventing you from using 32bit libs- fedora is just saying “hey we aren’t going to invest energy in maintaining something just 5% of our users use.”
I think the fundamental problem is that there are many different 5% groups and that you are very likely to be in some 5% groups.
In some way I feel dropping 32bit is capitulation to bloat.
I for one use 32bit libs in x86 32bit mode quite a lot to test software I build for memory bugs such that it works on actual 32bit systems.
Re: Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
#20Seems like an extreme response… other distros still exist. Plus they can still ship the 32bit binaries themselves. Fedora isn’t preventing you from using 32bit libs- fedora is just saying “hey we aren’t going to invest energy in maintaining something just 5% of our users use.”
No, they said: we don't want to build all 32-bit packages no one is using. libs which are used by games and such will be kept. So they need to keep gcc, glibc and binutils for 32bit also. Just not multilib, i686 cross is good enough