please god let the client have a 64 bit wayland edition coming
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The version of Wayland I'm running on bazzite right now is 32-bit? No wonder I'm having issues with 2 4K monitors lol
the steam client doesn't use wayland and is 32-bit, don't think that has anything to do with your monitors though
They have to do it for steamos ig
does it say which team fortress 2 class it's named after?
Steam Linux Runtime 4 (Saxton Hale)
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Proton-GE has had the Wow64 feature for a while now that can play older 32-bit titles under 64-bit, so it shouldn't be long before a truly 64-bit steam experience is available.
As of Proton-GE 9-22 I still cannot run Diablo II without all the 32 bit dependencies. I hear from people that Wow64 works, but I have never managed to get it to work pure 64-bit.
I think GE is on like 10-25 now or somewhere around there.
Thanks for the heads up. 10-25 worked with the variable PROTON_USE_WOW64="1"
That's a good sign, that Valve is moving at least the runtimes to 64bit only. Maybe that means the client is under similar scrutiny internally. Recently when Fedora was discussing dropping more 32bit libraries Steam came up as a big issue.
Yeah, 32bit is why I removed Steam from my Debian desktop daily driver again. I got conflicting 32bit and 64bit versions of some libraries that broke my system. I'm going to try a gaming focussed distro like Bazzite next time.
???
Debian separates out stuff with :[arch] suffixes, and is really flexible in the sense that it even lets you install stuff from completely different architectures for, for example, use with qemu userspace. An i386 package is going to only request i386 dependencies, unless it explicitly specifies an architecture, and vice versa. Arch Linux uses the "lib32-" prefix and I don't really remember how it worked on Fedora but I would imagine something similar. All "gaming focused distros" are merely just their mainstream counterparts with an extra repo for a few packages, it's not going to change fundamentals.
OpenSUSE is the same, the 32-bit stuff is completely separate from the 64-bit stuff, so you won't get conflicts between them.
Your better off using cachy if you want a gaming focused distro that doesn't break. Unless you use mostly flatpaks. Then bazzite is good
Give Steam Flatpak a try on Debian instead.
I've been using LMDE for the past couple years and I do all my non-switch gaming on it.
i recommend LXQT over LXDE cause its like the spiritual succesor,i think lighter and it has Wayland
but you can use whatever you like
I'm not using either of those. I'm using the LMDE default, Cinnamon.
sure
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Any news about an aarch64 version?
The new VR headset runs ARM, so presumably it'll launch with that.
Did you see this story a couple days ago? It seems like they're working on it? https://lemmy.zip/post/53357230
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