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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers
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Damnit I just installed Fedora and it’s the best experience I’ve had lately. Works better than Bazzite and Cachy. Sigh.
big linux wants to keep you distrohopping.
Bazzite is Fedora tho?...
It is a modified version of their immutable variant and it runs poorly on my hardware. 🤷♂️
I am curious to know how it “works better”?
Bazzite for example runs poorly on my hardware. Video playback in browsers is super laggy/choppy/stuttery. I use the same browser in Fedora proper and it’s smooth.
As for Cachy, I know it’s meant for gaming but my games ran significantly worse than in both Bazzite and Fedora proper.
For my hardware setup, Fedora proper is the best balance between usability and gaming performance.
Thanks for sharing! I honestly thought Bazzite was fedora with a few more packages on the top, but your issue sounds interesting
I strongly doubt that they'd render Steam not runnable on their distro.
It's a proposal, not a for sure thing yet.
Also, does anyone seriously think they'd do this without some sort of carve out for Steam to work? I can't imagine a worse idea at this time than for a desktop oriented distro to break the gaming use case that hard.