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by shmerl 3421 days ago
What about supporting older 32-bit applications? Without 32-bit support, there won't be any way to run 32-bit games in Wine for example, unless Wine will somehow rewrite it all to work with underlying 64-bit libraries.
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The [multilib] (ie, 32-bit libraries on 64-bit installs) support isn't going anywhere.
That's good! Though since the focus on 32-bit will decrease, it's possible that support for it in libraries will start deteriorating, and in the long term it can become an issue for use cases like Wine.