F44 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide)
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Given feedback in this thread (and to a lesser extent, also on the mailing list) I have decided to withdraw this proposal. It is clear that the Fedora 44 target for this Change was too early. To some degree, I expected this to be the case, and was prepared to move the proposed implementation of the Change to a later release. Fedora 44 was just the earliest “reasonable” target. However, I think this also shows an inherent conflict in the current Changes process - if a big Change (like this one...

I am disappointed in some of the reactions this !! proposal !! has received, with some people apparently reading it in the most uncharitable way. It was a proposal that tried to address technical problems package maintainers and release engineering is facing, not some conspiracy to break the “gaming use case”.

  • Billegh@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

    Steam itself isn’t the issue, it’s all the 32bit games. They could’ve done this move ages ago but didn’t because if steam runs, games have a chance of running.