Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI simply look beyond a few personal inconveniences at the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture is that progress requires sacrifice. Can't play some games/use some apps anymore? So be it, if that's the price to pay to finally get rid of old stuff like 32bit for good.

Because . . . the libraries take up a few megs on your terabyte+ hard drive? Yeah, surely it's worth getting rid of some functionality to get that!!!
But you know, all you have to do is delete the relevant libs. Nobody's stopping you.

That wouldn't serve any purpose, as it would only be for me. As I said, I'm looking at the bigger picture here.
And the bigger picture is that right now, 32bit is like an annoying mosquito at the butt of many developers and users... just look at this very situation.
If 32bit were gone for good, well, so would be situations like these.

But obviously, this was not the way to go about it, Canonical should have gathered some support and actual solutions from bigger linux players beforehand.

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Oh, boy, what a mess!

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: TheSHEEEPToo bad, really. I doubt Canonical will stick with their decision, since Valve not moving away from 32bit pretty much guarantees most gamers won't use newer Ubuntus any more.
Seems like we will have to drag along the 32bit legacy even longer. *sigh*

I don't understand that comment , really.

You're implying that is a bad decision but then also saying 32 bit legacy will stick on even longer.

When i look at your profile , it says you're dualbooting with Windows. So you also want MS to kill 32 bit support which will end miserably like Ubuntu's proposal, same games are also 32 bit on that side? Or just asking it on Linux side? Don't you have any 32 bit games?

Killing 32 bit compat is not something MS will do like Canonical does ; without a solution at all.

I simply look beyond a few personal inconveniences at the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture is that progress requires sacrifice. Can't play some games/use some apps anymore? So be it, if that's the price to pay to finally get rid of old stuff like 32bit for good.
Of course, if I couldn't play pretty much any games any more due to Steam not working, well, that would be more than just an inconvenience, it would make linux as a whole not viable to me.

Therefore, Canonical deciding to move forward becomes rather pointless if other important developers don't follow. And Valve announced that they won't, as did some others, so there we go...
I think this would require a concentrated effort, and that's just not something the Linux space is easily capable of. The Sum Of All Egos [External Link]....

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Too bad, really. I doubt Canonical will stick with their decision, since Valve not moving away from 32bit pretty much guarantees most gamers won't use newer Ubuntus any more.
Seems like we will have to drag along the 32bit legacy even longer. *sigh*

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Excellent move. Time to get rid of some legacy stuff.

Yes, there will be a few bumps along the way, but the longer people wait to move forward with this, the harder it will get.
Better sooner than later, then. It is inevitable, anyway.

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Good news, indeed!

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This really looks interesting. I'll follow it.

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I am really curious what the review score of those exlusive titles will be on Steam, once the exclusivity wears off...

It will kind of show how long the memory of people lasts.

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I switched from a Steam Controller to an Xbox One controller a few months ago.
The right "mouse pad" is simply the wrong choice for a great deal of games, not even talking about the lack of support for it (many just treat it like an analog stick, which obviously won't work).
And the flat d-pad just doesn't give you the same, clear 4-direction feeling that a proper d-pad does.

One thing that amazed me however, is the extreme battery life. I seriously cannot remember ever having switched batteries in my Steam Controller.

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I loved playing Faeria, what an amazingly beautiful game.

About the campaign: Too much face time. Too little game time.
What they should have done is make a video only about the game, and have a Yak narrate it. Those Yaks could sell me anything.

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