Linux Gaming @lemmy.world cm0002 @lemmy.world 2w ago

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

www.gamingonlinux.com Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

More to think on for the Fedora Linux change proposal to drop 32-bit support - as the popular Bazzite would have to shut down.

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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.
Bazzite shutting down would be tragic ( for me ). I've been quite happy with it. Slowly convincing people to switch. Bazzite was also a relatively low step compared to fixing them a standard distro as all the stuff they want/need is already readily available.

Telling people I decided to promote another distro because the old one stopped is only going to make me have to restart my efforts with an additional hurdle ( how do you know this one won't stop ).

I tried a few distros. But I didn't like garuda very much, nobara was okay'ish. Bazzite really clicked for some reason, despite needing a bit of getting used to.

I'd hate to go distro hunting again. Or try and update cpu schedulers and not brick the whole system.
- Maybe don’t chase the FOTM distro and go for one of those who have stood the test of time?
  
  Would I be in this situation if I took fedora, a distro that has withstood the test of time? Yes.
  
  Bazzite being fairly new is completely besides the point.
  
  Bazzite and the rest of universal Blue would rather call them a custom install of Fedora rather than a distro IIRC.
Steamos is based on arch and also immutable. Can't they do something like that. Never liked bazzite cause it was fedora based. I feel like any gaming distro should be arch based and making it immutable would fix the arch breaking fear.

Why is everyone downvoting? It's not really a stupid question when they apparently already tried it.
- Building a distro is hard. Building a distro on existing architecture like uBlue is easier, but still hard, especially if you want to do it right. I believe uBlue was the right choice. This is just someone over in upstream doing something stupid.
- Apparently they looked at it and had issues and bugs with arch which could not be fixed:
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lj9oqw/comment/mzkxkz2
Idk how to feel about this.

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