A little more info in the Phoronix article (though much of it was covered in the comments already):
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW [External Link]

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ALL items/keys have an expiry date

That's annoying, but at least it's clear up front. Worse was when an expiration was added after the fact (fortunately rare).

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The 'available for Windows only' warning was something that I depended on a great deal.

It's harder to see now, and with confusing messaging, but the info is still there in the game details, below the Steam Deck compatibility info: "Runs on this computer via Steam Play. Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout) selected by you for this title." I don't know if it ever shows Runtime 2.0 or Runtime 3.0, I haven't found any examples (I also don't see them in the compatibility tools options, though I do have them installed).

Contrast with the default for Windows games: "<default compatibility tool> selected by you for this title." I don't know if it ever shows "Proton Hotfix selected by Valve for this title" as I tend not to have those shiny (expensive) titles; big discounts are more my speed.

In any case, the messaging isn't great, but it's there. Would be cool if there was an equivalent to Greasemonkey for the Steam client, so you could apply user scripts to fix things up.

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couldn't there be a conversion layer that would allow 32-bit applications to run in a pure 64-bit environment?

I think the decrease in performance would be quite tangible. As I recall, IA64 had some kind of 32-bit emulation *in hardware*, and it got absolutely smoked by AMD64, which had native x86 support. The Itanic is no more, and Intel makes AMD64 CPUs.

Hmmm... apparently the hardware support was so bad, Intel ditched it for a software emulator:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32_Execution_Layer [External Link]

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The proposal was withdrawn:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/400 [External Link]

Curious to see what follows, and when. I doubt there will be many complaints about winding down 32-bit stuff that isn't used much (particularly if upstream has canned it already - the mentioned use case of most concern), but accurately identifying those things may be a big part of the job.

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on Fedora the detected OS when you run the system info tool in Steam shows “Linux 6.3” or something generic like that.

I was curious about this, years ago, when Steam was still new to Linux. From my investigation back then, I determined it was related to the "lsb_release" tool, which is/was not installed by default. Here is what I see with the current Steam beta client, and Fedora 42:

With the "redhat-lsb" package installed:
Operating System Version:
"Fedora release 42 (Adams)" (64 bit)

With the "lsb_release" package installed instead:
Operating System Version:
"Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)" (64 bit)

With neither of those installed (note the lack of quotes):
Operating System Version:
Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition) (64 bit)

So it looks like they have some kind of fallback mechanism in place these days (reading /etc/os-release directly, perhaps).

Side note: I haven't seen it mentioned before that they honored Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, for release 42 (the answer to life, the universe, and everything). As a fan, I must heartily approve.

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As for the Humble Choice subscription - I end up pausing a lot of months, so my annual subscriptions end up lasting a while. Even with the price increase, it's still worth it to me, as long as they don't mess with the pausing option. If the selection sucks, my subscription just lasts longer. If it gets to the point where it sucks every month, it will tank completely, and I doubt they want that (unless they are trying to shut it down).

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is there any kind of GamingOnLinux giveaway I could pass them onto

You can always give away keys on steamgifts:
https://www.steamgifts.com/ [External Link]

You can restrict giveaways to members of the GOL group if you want:
https://www.steamgifts.com/group/76vf4/gamingonlinux [External Link]

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That's non-recurrent.

Maybe there are other options, but the app itself pushes supporter subscriptions, in monthly and annual flavors. I just took a quick look, and thought it seemed rather sparsely featured for wanting a subscription.

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

Who should they rely on instead? Paid Red Hat developers? RHEL already dropped 32-bit support.

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