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

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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It’s interesting that Steam still uses 32-bit. Why? Backward compatibility?
- Games, native linux games and even 32 bit windows games
  
  So we can translate Windows API calls to Linux but we can’t do the same from 32 to 64 🤔
I feel like there might be a ton of weird edge cases where people still need 32 bit libraries. Steam is just scratching the surface here. The first steps should always be a series of public announcements and discussions followed by a testing period where the packages get moved to a repo which is disabled by default.

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