Newbie Install Advice

[Les Gray]

Glad to see you're making progress. If you do end up installing 64-bit Ubuntu 
you will find that you need to do a little extra work to get some things 
going, though. For example, you need to run 32-bit Firefox to have the Java 
plugin and Flash working hassle-free, because 64-bit versions of those aren't 
available yet (this is the same with Windows). This will work, but requires 
some extra set-up. There's some excellent info on how to go about this in the 
64-bit section of ubuntuforums.org , which is a must read. There is also some 
good 64-bit help at ubuntuguide.org .

I used 64-bit Ubuntu for about 6 months, and I didn't notice any performance 
difference TBH. At this stage, any 64-bit OS - Linux, Windows or otherwise - 
is only of benefit to people who require more than 4GB RAM eg. very large and 
very intensive database servers. For the home user, there's no real benefit. 
In fact, the software incompatibilities just mean extra work for you, which 
is why I went back to 32-bit in the end.

Les

On Sunday 08 July 2007 19:18:15 Trias wrote:
> Good news at last.
>
> I tried the knoppix it worked no worries.  I then tried the 64bit DVD of
> ubuntu 7.04 and no worries again.  So seems the 64 bit version has solved
> my problem at least in terms of running without installing.
>
> I admit i was quite impressed.  Browsing worked immediately and ubuntu even
> has firefox which i what i'm used to.  Both also allowed access to my hard
> drive ran movies etc.
>
> I guess I will try backing up and pushing the scary install button now.
>
> Thanks for the help thus far.  Hopefully the install is problem free.