I wonder how much power Valve even has here. I mean, we’re talking about Windows compatibility. How many Windows games can run properly in a 64-bit WINE environment?
Dropping 32-bit support has to happen eventually, but there’s bound to be collateral damage. It wasn’t a painless change even on macOS, which is generally a more tightly controlled “adapt or die” platform.
The concept is real. I mean, anyone who thought “vibe coding” would be a viable career path for long enough to actually have a career was just not paying attention to reality.
Right now it legitimately takes some expertise to get good results from AI coding. (Most people doing it now get, at best, convincingly passable results.) But the job of a “vibe coder” is much simpler than the job of a conventional programmer, and it will become increasingly simple to automate out the human’s role. It’s not like progress is going to suddenly stop. The fruit is hanging so low that it might as well be on the ground.
Are those odd choices? My knowledge of emulators is more outdated than OP’s hardware.
I don’t think there’s any simple answer to what’s beginner-friendly, because so much is hardware-dependent. They mentioned obscure laptop hardware, and at that point I wouldn’t even make a recommendation to someone beyond “see if any distros have a wiki page about that specific hardware, and search for forum threads about it”.
I’m sure there are cases when Arch is a lot easier than Mint. I’m not sure why they dismissed Fedora out of hand, though. What’s wrong with Fedora?
Cool, sounds promising!