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Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Since Wine 9.0, you can run 32-bit windows apps on 64-bits directly, without the need for 32bits distro support. It’s called WoW64.

You can in some cases, but not all.

Wine has two forms of WoW64. Old WoW64 uses 32-bit libraries and has been around for a long time.

New WoW64 (first available in Wine 9.0 if built with a special option) works without 32-bit libraries, but is still incomplete. It cannot yet replace old WoW64 everywhere, and even where it can, it reduces performance in some APIs. (For example, OpenGL.)

It will eventually make sense to drop the old one, but doing so now would be premature.