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Gaming? It has been something like 13 years since I switched my non-gaming Linux to 64bit.
Very few maintain the 32bit x86 side of things anymore. Not just Windows software, even most Linux distos partly or fully dropped support. It just doesn't make sense to run x86 processors in 32bit with fewer less capable registers and many other downsides.
> Several months of work to tune up Windows again
Maybe you'll switch over too at some point. Copying configs or running ansible scripts or whatever you do is not quite as hard.
Or you pick something else, but I expect almost everything to eventually drop 32bit x86 on Windows, and it mostly already happened, even for things as popular as web browsers. It's definitely not just Hydrus. I believe it won't be fun going forward on that.