• henfredemars
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    5 months ago

    It’s not just that. Imagine the dependency management trying to hold onto 32 bit compatibility.

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      5 months ago

      O, god yes.

      We had this discussion at my company. And the result was we swapped over in our next major version and told any customer who couldn’t run a 64-bit program to get an OS made in the last decade. (no customer complained)

    • Nico198X@europe.pub
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      5 months ago

      i don’t have to imagine it!

      thanks to Steam, my Linux install is full of 32-bit shit libraries (or shitlibs for short)