It makes sense to deprecate the 32-bit client. Win 10 32-bit was already pretty rare and any Linux distro has been 64-bit for the last decade.
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It’s not just that. Imagine the dependency management trying to hold onto 32 bit compatibility.
O, god yes.
We had this discussion at my company. And the result was we swapped over in our next major version and told any customer who couldn't run a 64-bit program to get an OS made in the last decade. (no customer complained)
i don't have to imagine it!
thanks to Steam, my Linux install is full of 32-bit shit libraries (or shitlibs for short)
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And what about Linux? A month ago I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems...
I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…
That's what Flatpak is for. 32bit crap is moved into its own corner without interfering with any system level stuff.
Doesn't the Flatpak version have it's own issues? I'm considering just installing Bazzite on a separate partition.
I've been using Steam via flatpak on Debian without any issues (yet) since Trixie released.
Thanks, I'll give that a try then!
Bazzite has Steam preinstalled, and in fact it blocks the installation of Flatpak Steam
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holy crap I just looked it up and there are supposedly 32bit only versions of windows 10. I thought for sure that ended with xp.
Running 64-bit XP was actually kind of rare
I ran it, and it was a (poorly) rebadged version of server 2003.
At least one app I used, refused to install on it because they "didn't support server operating systems" ..... Yeah. That actually happened. It picked it up as the server 2003 version that XP 64bit edition was based on.
I just about jumped right off a bridge.
Nobody wanted XP without Space Cadet Pinball
The main point of 32-bit Windows 10 wasn't to make it run on non-64-bit hardware, it's that x86 processors can't run in 16-bit mode if they were booted in 64-bit mode, so if you've got an old 16-bit Windows/DOS/CPM app that you've absolutely got to run natively instead of through DOSBox and have to use modern Windows instead of an older version, it needs to be 32-bit. By the time Windows 11 released, Microsoft had decided that nearly no one still wanted to do that anymore.
Technically it was just only recently that ms no longer has mainstream support for 32bit oses, as they only dropped that with windows 11.
Makes me think that might be the reason for valve choosing now to do this.
Well. Way to give up on the 32-bit dream steam. Jeez. Does nobody hold the line anymore? Who cares that a 32-bit processor probably hasn't been sold in over a decade? Stick to your guns steam. Everyone told you that it was idiotic not to update to 64-bit and you ignored them. I respected that. A sad day for a poor decision.
I legitimately cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not
I was super cereal.
God damnit
Let me clear that up for you: yes it is or it is not.
Hope that helps.
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I can
Valve is supporting windows 10 even better than microsoft
Cannot wait for the day I can uninstall flatpak steam on my Gentoo system and just install through portage, without dealing with 32 bit libraries
It's been a couple years since I used Gentoo. I thought multilib was pretty smooth and everything just worked. I don't remember installing steam through flatpak. Is multilib broken in Gentoo? Am I forgetting something?
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It was inevitable.
i cannot WAIT until this comes to Linux
hell hath frozen over
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