Comments on: Fedora Holds Off on Dropping i686, Citing Community Needs

By: T3

T3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:03:24 +0000

In reply to Phil.

Debian has already layed the ground work to start moving away from 32bit.

Debian 13 Trixie will not include a separate installer or kernel for 32-bit x86.

Users will still be able to run 32-bit applications in a multi-architecture unoffical setup on 64-bit systems for a while unofficially. 32-bit binaries can be executed in containers or chroot environments, allowing some not all software to continue functioning with unoffical support but even this is not guaranteed to work or even exist in the future since debian is moving away from 32bit.

By: T3

T3 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:51:08 +0000

ubuntu and linux mint dropped 32bit support years ago and I never have had any issues or even thought about it but i guess there may be certain older games that require it that I do not use. I do have various games and even emulators for games but non of them seem to require 32 bit linux.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:24:55 +0000

In reply to AlexZ. Agreed, this tendency to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" gets tiring. Did use Fedora on a workstation for a while, but was happy when I switched back to Debian.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:39:26 +0000

In reply to AlexZ.

Come to Debian, it’s much better. It’s a truly free and community-based distribution.

Unlike Fedora, we don’t depend on companies like RedHat, whose only concern is making more and more money…

By: AlexZ

AlexZ — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:58:14 +0000

Fedora is a ticking bomb. Disruptive proposals like “remove X11” or “remove i686” appear way too often. 5 years ago I chose Fedora as my main work distro which I felt I could rely on for years to come. Today my choice would be different.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:45:29 +0000

“… with some people apparently reading it in the most uncharitable way”

Welcome to the Internet.