As the developer who proposed the change mentioned, it's a big maintenance burden on the volunteers who build Fedora

- Maintaining x11 is a burden.
- Maintaining 32 bit is a burden.
- Maintaining OpenGL is a burden.
- Maintaining SDL2 is a burden.
- Maintaining Gecko is a burden.
- Maintaining Java is a burden.

Let me tell you as a person who works in an entirely different field as a maintenance specialist; MAINTENANCE ITSELF IS A BURDEN. But it needs to be done, not because it's fun or easy, because it's necessary. Look at the list above and tell me you don't see any similarities with Apple.

Mayhaps, Fedora shouldn't rely volunteers on maintaining core elements of the OS.

Edit: Missing volunteers word added at the last sentence.

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Ugh, that's disgusting. Resorting Apple solutions for problems do not exist? Are these people insane? Just yesterday, I spend hours trying to downgrade my wife's Mac into Mojave to be able to play back catalogue of 32 bit games, and now I am seeing this.

And ofc, some cheer that as this will force Valve to adopt 64 bit client, improve Proton, and Steam Linux Runtime should solve all other problems.

Firstly, Steam is 64 bit on macOS for both ARM64 and x86-64 builds. And guess what, it is still slow, clunky and unresponsive. It's not the architecture problem, rather a GUI issue. As long as Chromium Embedded Framework is used, Steam will continue to crawl, architecture upgrade will not solve that.

Secondly, Valve cannot be forced to drop an arch when majority of distros still supporting it. Remember, it is Valve who pushed for Linux client when Windows 8 turned out to be a disaster. Fedora is simply overestimating itself here.

Lastly, as much as some people refuse to acknowledge, native Linux games do exist. And just like in 32 bit macOS case, they won't be updated any time soon. Heck, my favourite FPS, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars that I still play online is an abandonware from 2007, who do you think will update it into x86-64?

Solution? Kindly keep asking Valve to switch its client into x86-64 while keeping the 32 bit compatibility. Keep everyone happy. Cheers!✌🏻

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I played the Android port of the Another World that I got from one of the Humble Bundles. I wonder if the Sega CD exclusive sequel Heart of the Alien will run with ScummVM in the future.

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Nice! I failed to finish the original campaign of Postal 2 without killing anybody (dogs don't count 🙃) due to Unreal Engine 2 decided to despawn one of the enemies at the doorpath, resulting him to be squished by the door, literal spawnkill. Ofc, that death was counted on me. 🥲 If they release a Linux native build, then I will give the pacifist another go.

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It would be nice to have something similar to SmartTube on Steam Deck to block ads as well as sponsored ads.

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76? So they mean 7 or 6?

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Insert "Oh no! Anyway" meme.

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That's awesome! I am getting bored of keep playing Horizon Chase Turbo splitscreen. It's time to play NFS Most Wanted split screen, finally!

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Epic games what?

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Remember, you have to opt in to public beta to get these updates.

How to Opt Into the public-beta

Right-click Black Mesa in your Steam Library
Select "Properties"
Navigate to "Betas"
Select "public-beta" from the dropdown menu

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