@Stella Small open source projects tend to be very tricky to work with and be difficult to use, build and whatnot. This is going to be true in any OS, but they are much less common in Windows . . . small open source projects are usually Linux based. It has little to do with whether Linux is "viable as an application platform".

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This topic probably needed to be broached in one way or another. But this guy seems either foolish or insincere to me. He "wasn't expecting" the reaction he got, and it's just sooo unfortunate that people were mean to him? If he genuinely wasn't expecting it, he's an idiot, because it is completely obvious what the reaction was going to be, right down to it being exactly the same reaction Ubuntu got for exactly the same reasons a while ago. So OK, if that's the case then hopefully now he's learned something.

But if he really wanted reasoned responses that didn't take sides, he had an option. Rather than saying "I propose that we wholesale rip out this stuff a lot of people depend on", which is what he said, he could have said "Maintaining this stuff a lot of people depend on is difficult the way we do it, is there some way we could arrange for users to still be able to do what they want to do, but with less overall maintenance effort?"

But he didn't do that, so he got the response he asked for. His snidely bitching about it now seems disingenuous to me.

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This feels like that moment in the sandbox where you've finished building whatever the heck and you stomp through and destroy it.

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The first thing I thought was "Can you do Godzilla?" and I am pleased to see in the trailer that yes, you can!

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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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