The Linux community can be pretty tough, but also there’s a decent amount of people that are very anti-Linux that love to pile on the hate.

Hopefully they can automate a lot of the work out of the way to reduce the friction

I do use that when gaming. Awesome software

Thanks, I don’t think i’ll bother with the power side of it but I’d be interested to know still.

OK, got it. Thanks

I’m pretty confused what you’re getting at to be honest.

Yea that’s what I kinda figured to be honest. Probably the only scenario would be wanting to do pass through to a VM or something where it might be useful

In what setup? Using switchable graphics?

I’ve generally had pretty good success with laptops, but they were always Intel + Nvidia with only one HDMI port available.

That’s essentially what has happened in some distros like Arch Linux where you have to explicitly install the 32bit versions alongside the 64bit versions.

Also, Steam provides some 32bit libraries exactly for this reason.

For one, its just a burden for maintainers to continue to make sure stuff still works with the presence of those libraries. Unmaintained software is increasingly subject to vulnerabilities, adding an additional burden for maintainers that cover off on the security aspect of packages. It also can hold back further development in other areas simply because they need to be able to install those older 32bit libraries.

The solution to a lot of these problems is containerisation, whereby you’re effectively able to shift these issues off into their own area that has no affect on the rest of the operating system, but can be safely accessed when needed.

The 32 bit libraries are still available for you to run that old software. If it was removed entirely those old games would not run

Old games and software that will never be updated were built to run on 32 bit libraries.

Can’t live without my magic lamp animation for minimise/maximise. Feels so out of place without it

I’ve been thinking of switching back to Arch. Currently using Nobara, and its moved to rolling release anyway.

Definitely waiting for the v1.0 release of this. I’ve tried it a few times and its too janky at the moment, especially with path finding in your buildings. Hopefully they can keep going and actually make it to a 1.0 release.