Hmm, after listening to Alan Pope on BDLL tonight I'm not feeling as confident as I was earlier

.. he's suggesting they're possibly going to drop
ALL 32bit libs (which would effectively kill of steam and wine on Ubuntu >= 19.10)

I should add that he 'suggested' nothing is set in stone at the moment it's still just an internal discussion, and the Ubuntu team are going to be returning to work on Monday having to deal with the internet furore so we'll only then see what happens .. but Valve are taking it seriously enough that they're suggesting they'll not support or recommend Ubuntu from 19.10
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/steam-announces-that-its-dropping-support-for-ubuntuI'm willing to wait and see how this pans out before making any rash judgement, but if they decide to plough on regardless (which let's face it is their M.O. of late) and drop
ALL 32bit libs (or even just include them only as a snap) I'm willing to bet this will kill
desktop Ubuntu (certainly derivatives unless they rebase .. Ubuntu may be able to survive purely on IoT but derivatives won't).
I'm also willing to bet it'd kill em in the server room and corporate desktop environments too .. lots of software still requires 32bit libs such as virtualisation, legacy/bespoke software, many legacy printer (and other) drivers, etc. it's not just about games.
I'm having trouble believing they've actually thought this through and will do it, but we'll have to wait and see....
I understood their decision to drop 32bit ISO's, I would even understand them dropping
full multiarch in their repos, but dropping
ALL 32bit support libraries would IMHO be insane
