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Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/93

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

dang. That was supposed to be my go to OS once I got my data backed up.
any chance someone could recommend another distro for me?

it would be on my Laptop. Fairly new, Intel IRIS cpu, no dedicated GPU (can get specs if needed).
I'm going into UNI for comp sci next year
I want KDE as a requirement.
I would prefer it to be arch based so my knowledge can be transferred to messing with my steam deck, but not a requirement.

I also tinkered my previous distros to death by messing with terminal commands I didn't know (it's how you learn!). I would prefer something to back it up if I accidentally delete a million packages like last time but I don't know if that would be something dependent on the OS or just a program.

I don't really understand what immutable is, but I think my SteamDeck is immutable so I think I want it 🤷‍♀️

any recommendations/tips would be appreciated 🩷

[–] ntd_quiet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

I've appreciated endeavourOS's installer and defaults. It's Arch-based and has an option to install KDE/Plasma as the default desktop environment. I only back up my home directory, but I'm sure there's systemwide options, like btrfs snapshots (although that's a whole thing you'd need to test/verify). It's not an immutable distro. And, being Arch-based, it gets frequent updates. I've had a handful of issues from a package being too cutting-edge, but often it gets resolved within a few days at most with an update. Never had something totally break my system that I didn't cause myself (mostly symlink traversal). Just read up on pacman's flags (particularly -R flags, like -dd, -s, -n).

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bazzite is still currently a great distro.

If Fedora drops support for 32bit packages, Steam, Proton, and more will no longer work, and all Fedora derivatives become useless for gaming.

Other than Bazzite, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Kubuntu Minimal are both great choices.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If Fedora drops support for 32bit packages, Steam, Proton, and more will no longer work, and all Fedora derivatives become useless for gaming.

That is until Valve make the Linux Steam client proper 64-bit (which hopefully will happen sooner than later), and Wine/Proton don't have to depend on 32-bit/multilib at the Linux host level, that's what the WoW64 subsystem is for.

That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.

Which is why Valve hasn’t adopted 64-bit. What good is Steam if an enormous number of Steam games stop working? Until WoW64 improves significantly, dropping 32bit support on Linux is a non-starter.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

When Redhat went Fedora, I learned Debian and Ubuntu. When they decided to flush CentOS, I GTFO even professionally and stayed out of their ancestral distros.

Don't get me wrong, I'm down with change and updating, but they are very focused on making things better/easier for themselves without worries about who they're supposed to be supporting.

[–] TTimo@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I really feel for the Bazzite developer over the possible Fedora decision. That just plain sucks. Fedora was never a big gaming distro though. Hindisght is 20/20 and all that, but why pick that one as base in the first place?

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Why would they not just use an Arch base like the real SteamOS does?

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used EndeavorOS in the past which was a successor to AntergOS, both arch based, with gui installer and easy nvidia driver setup, they both worked like a charm without any issues (unlike fucking Manjaro).

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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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