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       Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-06-25 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | pbohun wrote:
       | It may not look like it now, but I think Linux is not viable
       | long-term as a desktop OS. There should probably be an effort to
       | specifically make FreeBSD a gaming-ready OS. We know it can be
       | done since Sony already did it for PlayStation (but that's
       | proprietary).
       | 
       | FreeBSD also needs an OS-level graphics/window API just like
       | Windows. Linux is still trying to pretend like its the 60s where
       | text was the only way to interact with a computer. Graphics is
       | integral to all mobile and desktop computing and should be part
       | of the operating system.
        
         | bigyabai wrote:
         | None of this is really related to the issue though. You _could_
         | fix this by uprooting all of your software and switching to
         | another OS... or with Bubblewrap and a Steam Flatpak.
         | Containerization was always the future of UNIX-like gaming,
         | even  "native" Steam installations use it with pressure-vessel.
         | Same goes for Linuxulator on FreeBSD.
         | 
         | FreeBSD is an excellent example of how much development you can
         | expect from a license that allows full commercial exploitation
         | of it's codebase. You will sooner see Sony sell $600 PS3s than
         | you will have a graphical installer or hardware-accelerated
         | Chromium. If Linux is running the race with a bum leg, BSD is
         | drafting it's will in the hospital bed.
        
         | heavyset_go wrote:
         | > _There should probably be an effort to specifically make
         | FreeBSD a gaming-ready OS_
         | 
         | This will only happen for consoles as it is the case already,
         | due to the driver issue.
         | 
         | It's one thing to create a specialized Linux distribution, it's
         | another thing to try to support thousands of SKUs found in
         | common desktops, roll your own modern WiFi stack, etc.
        
         | TacticalCoder wrote:
         | > It may not look like it now, but I think Linux is not viable
         | long-term as a desktop OS.
         | 
         | I'm using Linux on the desktop since the early Slackware days,
         | in the nineties.
         | 
         | The one thing that changed since then is that Linux now powers
         | 500 of the world's Top 500 supercomputers and that's it. Wait,
         | no, I forgot... It powers as well as billions if not tens of
         | billions of phones, routers, servers, TVs, etc. It's in space,
         | in cars, at sea, underground, etc.
         | 
         | It's typically also powering OCI containers, containers host,
         | VMs, Kubernetes (even Talos is still Linux), etc.
         | 
         | Now of course the one thing that hasn't changed is the _" This
         | year is the year of Linux on the desktop"_ joke. But somehow,
         | in the face of billions of devices running Linux, that joke
         | doesn't have the same punch to it anymore.
         | 
         | What makes you think that an OS that basically now powers the
         | entire world isn't suitable long term as a desktop OS?
         | 
         | It's become so easy to use Linux as a desktop OS that even my
         | wife is on Debian: not exactly a "newbie friendly desktop
         | distro".
         | 
         | Is the whole Gnome/KDE/Xorg/Wayland a mess? Sure is. And yet
         | Linux is definitely here to stay.
         | 
         | Linux shall still exist, even on the desktop, long after I'm
         | gone.
         | 
         | Linux is perfectly viable on the desktop.
        
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