Not for me, I try to stay off painkillers for the most part. A bit of Tylenol now and then, that's about it.

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..and now I find out that the OS I chose might just end overnight right after I just jumped ship from Windows?

I wouldn't actually worry too much. I don't think even the person who made the change proposal has in mind to actually just dump 32-bit support. There's a reason they seem to have made the proposal with extra timeline. I think what they really want is to get the discussion going along the lines of "in order to reduce the maintenance burden of 32-bit stuff without losing too much functionality, what would we need to do?"

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I don't really understand why "run it in a container" is, by itself, a solution.
Like, the issue here is some Fedora devs don't want to maintain certain 32-bit things that 32-bit applications need in order to run, yes?
So, "run it in a container" puts those exact same 32-bit things inside the container instead of out in the OS, yes?
So, the issue after "run it in a container" is some container-related devs won't want to maintain certain 32-bit things that 32-bit applications need in order to run. This is better how? Worse still, potentially you could have different container solutions with separate maintenance for every damn application, instead of one solution per primary distro.

If there were a project that did a generic 32-bit-app container that worked across all apps and distros, I suppose that would potentially reduce duplication of effort. Short of that I don't see the advantage.

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Perhaps for truth in advertising they should call it "Anti-Cheat Amateur"

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Sure. So is there a decent emulator for 32-bit? I haven't seen anyone suggesting one that others haven't rubbished fairly convincingly.

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The Linux space is far less political than it was in the early years, what on earth are you talking about?

Seriously, I got involved with Linux for political reasons back around 2000, maybe before. At the time, there were constant arguments between the Eric Raymond faction and the Richard Stallman faction; everyone was talking about the Free Software Foundation. The concept of Free Software, or Open Source depending on your preference, was seen as politically groundbreaking; the anti-corporate current was a tide compared to the trickle of today. Linux space "becoming" politicized, what nonsense.

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Ahem. Library person here. Sure, books disappear, but just disappearing because "nobody ever read them" is not "normal". So for instance, in my region all the academic libraries have a kind of catalogue-sharing thing called "last copy" to make sure that when we weed books that aren't used, we don't all accidentally dump the same one. Somebody will have one last copy of that weird old book.

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I don't think it is. From the article:

The Steam version is free but it has "optional non-recurrent purchase for users who want to unlock additional features or support development".

That's non-recurrent.

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Other than unmaintained legacy software

. . . Of which there is probably quite a bit. Specifically relevant to this forum, nearly all older games are "unmaintained legacy software".

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But Linux is too niche. We live in capitalism, what makes money is king, few are going to target a platform that's at 1% out of sentiment. Some, but not that many.

And all your "for all intents and purposes" and what Valve "intends" and talk of Android seem to almost intentionally miss the point. SteamOS is Linux--there's no discussion about this, there's no "well in this way it is and in this way it isn't"--SteamOS is Gnu/Linux, software that runs on SteamOS runs on Linux (which is not true of Android). What's running on the metal is Linux. And at the rate things are going, Linux will not be too niche. When Linux is no longer too niche, native Linux titles will increase--I've never seen a credible counterargument. And this is happening because Proton dropped the barriers to adoption. That's just the way it is.

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