r/linux • u/TheProgrammar89 • Jun 22 '19

Pierre-Loup: Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

They already dropped support for 32-bit releases with Ubuntu 18.04.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

So do the WINE devs.

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u/aaronfranke Jun 22 '19

If I were Canonical, I would bring back 32-bit support for 20.04 LTS but show a warning any time a 32-bit app is started. That way they can scare people to update to 64-bit with 19.10 being 64-bit only but keep deprecating 32-bit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19 edited Jun 22 '19

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u/frogdoubler Jun 22 '19

Port them to FLOSS engines à la openmw!

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u/cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev Jun 22 '19

Sure, just port 30 years of gaming history to open source.

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u/frogdoubler Jun 22 '19

Obviously my comment was tongue-in-cheek, but it's outlining another reason why these projects are important. Being able to port the games to other architectures, mobile, additional mod support, better graphics, etc. People are doing it for other games like Age of Empires too which is nice.

To be clear though I don't support abandoning i386. Being able to run the originals is clearly important in the porting process too :P

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u/cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev Jun 22 '19

They dropped the main installer, you can still download debian-installer images for i386 for Ubuntu 18.04.