steven36 Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 In response to the decision to drop 32-bit x86 support beginning in Ubuntu 19.10, Alan Pope of Canonical and longtime Ubuntu member decided to try running some GOG games under an Ubuntu 19.10 daily build that he configured to remove the 32-bit packages ahead of the actual removal. Unfortunately, his experience didn't go so smoothly. While Valve has the resources to come up with an effective solution to bypass the Ubuntu archives doing away with 32-bit packages on Ubuntu 19.10, the smaller outfits like GOG may have a more difficult time especially with not being as centralized as Steam. Pains could be involved at least in the short-term for those wanting to enjoy their 32-bit-focused games on newer Ubuntu releases. Alan Pope tested a few representative games of GOG today to see how they would work put with a 64-bit only Ubuntu 19.10. With three games they failed to install without Wine32 support, the GOG version of Braid meanwhile refused to launch after installation due to being 32-bit only, and two other games launched but with black window (this may be the result of using VirtualBox for testing). Details on the attempted GOG gaming experience with a 64-bit-only Ubuntu 19.10 can be found via this post. Assuming Canonical doesn't revert course or scale back their decision to offer at least the most popular 32-bit packages to remain, it could be pain in the short term particularly for gamers. For this "Eoan Ermine" release the feature freeze is already coming up in just two months from tomorrow, which further makes this week's announcement such a surprise to drop it mid-cycle. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 24, 2019 Administrator Share Posted June 24, 2019 Someone needs to sort it out. They cannot rely on relatively outdated technology just because some games are not running. I once had a software which did not run on 64-bit OS as it was not even 32-bit. But I cannot remain on 32-bit OS just for that software. There needs to be a fix for the problem like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 56 minutes ago, DKT27 said: Someone needs to sort it out. They cannot rely on relatively outdated technology just because some games are not running. I once had a software which did not run on 64-bit OS as it was not even 32-bit. But I cannot remain on 32-bit OS just for that software. There needs to be a fix for the problem like this. The problem with games most all are 32 bit , Linux never had no backward compatibly like Windows tell here recently . Now we have some with AppImage , Ubuntu Snap and FlatPac they can make installers with all the outdated stuff needed to run in one package . But when it comes with Games on Linux it gets complicated because your dealing with Wine and things and if it were and old native Linux game you had you would have pack the whole game in one of the formats that have backwards compatibly so it makes more sense to just keep making new packages of stuff to run 32 bit than kill it. But Ubuntu devs are over compulsive and they got it in there head anything 32 bit is bad so they want to rip it out of the OS... Steam . 32 bit Wine and Peazip are some of the only apps left on Linux they still make only a 32 bit package of but its takes a whole lot of 32 bit prerequisites to make it run and these are the packages there want to rip out from Ubuntu's tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 Anyways I'm sure Ubuntu will figure it out they always do but if they repeat past mistakes like the did with removing AMD closed source driver before they ever got working open source AMD drivers they will lose users , it was like a year i could not even boot up in new versions of Ubuntu in my Gateway AMD because it had no working driver but AMD and Linux fixed it in the end , but it caused me to distro hop to other distros that were still patching the closed source driver tell AMD and Linux Foundation put good new ones in the kernel . Ubuntu just flat out dropped support for AMD systems that were only few years old back then. So they always doing crazy . The bad thing about it is Ubuntu based is what most Linux newbies go for because its most easy one to use, so them messing with games is not good for Linux over all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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