If Fedora drops support for 32bit packages, Steam, Proton, and more will no longer work, and all Fedora derivatives become useless for gaming.
That is until Valve make the Linux Steam client proper 64-bit (which hopefully will happen sooner than later), and Wine/Proton don’t have to depend on 32-bit/multilib at the Linux host level, that’s what the WoW64 subsystem is for.
That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.
That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.
Which is why Valve hasn’t adopted 64-bit. What good is Steam if an enormous number of Steam games stop working? Until WoW64 improves significantly, dropping 32bit support on Linux is a non-starter.
That is until Valve make the Linux Steam client proper 64-bit (which hopefully will happen sooner than later), and Wine/Proton don’t have to depend on 32-bit/multilib at the Linux host level, that’s what the WoW64 subsystem is for.
That will definitely break Linux-native 32-bit games though.
Which is why Valve hasn’t adopted 64-bit. What good is Steam if an enormous number of Steam games stop working? Until WoW64 improves significantly, dropping 32bit support on Linux is a non-starter.