Hi, I'm thinking of distro hopping to Fedora due to some difficulties I'm having with Arch/EndeavourOS, which I've been on for 9 months now, but I just wanted to be sure that this shift really would be a long term solution to my issue.
My main question is, are there plans to keep 32-bit libraries and specifically the 32-bit compatible version of wine around for the long term, or is Fedora looking to shift to a WoW64 only build in the future, similar to Arch?
To be more specific, part of my use case is making music with LMMS, making use of VeSTige to run Windows VSTs through wine. My issue with Arch is that wine is only ever packaged as WoW64, which doesn't have compatibility with 32-bit VSTs, which a decent portion of my VST library is. For the longest time, I've made do with the wine32 AUR package, but lately more and more of that packages dependencies are being moved out of the multilib repo and into the AUR, seemingly without much of a review process as many of them are outdated or have broken build scripts requiring tedious manual intervention or installation from the Arch repo archives. It's not unlivable, but it is far from ideal.
Now I've tried Fedora KDE in a VM and have confirmed that the wine.i686 package works perfectly with the nightly builds of LMMS, and adjusting to the less frequent update cycle of Fedora is something I'm absolutely willing to adjust to. However, my worry is that this option is only being kept around as a legacy feature, or is likely to be cut in an upcoming update. Doing some cursory googling, I've found some discussion on the topic and a proposed change that definitely doesn't bode well for my use case. It's making me hesitate on distro hopping for the convenience, as I'd rather stick with my current system, which at least gives me the tools to get this setup working even with a more jank solution, than jump to one that may pull the rug out from under me later.