Quoting: liamdaweDone, took some research and some hair-pulling but I managed to get it to work.

Great, thanks! It shows a drop in the total number of users, when checking some trends. Is it because some users aren't updating profiles, or because some users stopped specifying some particular parameter in their profile?

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@liamdawe: can you please add the total (and specific) number of users to trends in the tooltip, when hovering over specific data point? I.e. something like (30% [300/1000]). Percentages alone are not as informative without absolute numbers.

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Quoting: RedfaceToo little would be too just continue to build the whole distribution in 32 bit. Now the actual needed libraries and programs will be identified so that better future proof solutions.
Or to continue with their plans as announced where there was way to many problems and to little time for the 19.10 and 20.04 release.

My trust in them increased by their new plan.

No doubt their current proposal is a lot better than before. But I don't trust Ubuntu in general. This whole debacle didn't help.

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Quoting: GuestThat's fine, you can be out. Just how many 32 bit apps do you run on your machine? I run one, steam.

I guess you are not a gamer and not in this topic then. A lot of older games are 32-bit, especially Wine use case. I'd say any game older than from 2015 - is very likely 32-bit. That's a lot of games! So Steam client itself is pretty much irrelevant in comparison with sheer amount of 32-bit games.

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I'd classify it as too little, too late. Trust is pretty much gone. And I doubt anyone would recommend Ubuntu for gaming after this.

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Let's take Feral Interactive as an example of this, I've seen a lot of comments from people saying they buy directly through the Feral store, so Feral gets the full cut and that's just one of many such examples. However, the difference of course is the majority of the time the games are available across multiple stores, you still have the choice.

Feral are the counter example, no? Even games bought in their own store require Steam. So they essentially are equal to Steam exclusives? Feral staunchly refuse to release their games on GOG and other Linux stores.

I'm personally torn on it all. I don't particularly like exclusives, as I don't like any kind of lock-in but I don't blame developers for doing it. Good games take a lot of time and money to produce and support after release. Offering developers the chance to earn more money from a smaller store cut, plus limited-time exclusive funds to help them finish their game and improve it, developers are obviously going to take it.

Exclusivity is the wrong way to do it. Not only it's anti-competitive which is bad, it's anti-user, since it limits users' choice. So to answer Tim - no, exclusives can not be justified with agenda of lowering "Steam tax".

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Quoting: x_wingIn short, all the suggested workarounds are by far more expensive than simply compiling the base deps for x86.

They might be more expensive to develop, but it can be better than having nothing when upstream libraries simply decide to drop 32-bit support to begin with. They can do it at some point. Then what?

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Quoting: x_wingAnd will never be an option having the retro compability at hardware level. Also, creating such emulation layer stills requires to have the 32 bit libraries to run, so not a solution for the current problem.

32-bit libraries can be completely bypassed, by modifying 32-bit code on the fly in some way, into 64-bit one. Something like thunking idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk [External Link]

Not sure how well that would work, but hard to say until someone tries.

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Quoting: Shmerl2. Come up with solution to run 32-bit programs, using 64-bit libraries with good performance, no 32-bit libs involved at all.

That's not a solution for graphic intensive applications, and probably every library in your system because in order to map a 32 bit library into the 64 bit version you will have to start a new process that handles the library calls through an IPC with a big impact in the performance.

Using processor emulation like with Qemu would be indeed too much of performance hit. But hardware gets better, solutions get better and etc. Eventually this might work with acceptable performance. 32-bit games will remain old, so their level of performance requirements will be easier and easier to crunch. But not today, and besides no one implemented that yet.

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Quoting: chancho_zombiecome on Debian?? haven't tried it recently but does it still use a ncurses installer?? sorry but it's not user friendly

Debian has graphical installer for years already.

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