How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Mark Reitblatt]

On 9/30/06, Kilz _ <kilzzz at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> The amount of 64bit systems sold is growing.

And it still pales in comparison to the number of x86 systems already
in the market, especially outside of the US.

> Your suggestion that it helps
> few is wrong imho.

Yet you repeatedly fail to give an argument why it is beneficial to
many. Especially beneficial enough to take precedent over improvements
that will help the vast majority of Ubuntu users.

> You will deffnatly not see 64bit Vista users chose 32bit
> Ubuntu no matter what you say.

Sure. Whatever you say. If Vista is a better solution for them, I
invite them to use Vista. Computers are tools. Use the best one for
the task.

> Once its released you will be playing catch
> up.

No I won't.

> 3d modeling is quite a popular use of computers. Encodeing is to, both
> benefit from 64bit.

3D modeling on the desktop not so much. A quick survey of my friends
(mostly CS Majors, some Liberal Arts) shows that none of them use 3D
Modeling sw on anything approaching a normal basis. And certainly
never to a degree that would quantifiably benefit from x86_64 versus
x86.


> That you cant take a and b and look in a list is your
> own problem.

Please, this still makes no sense. "a and b" doesn't mean anything in
English unless you give it "a" and "b" a meaning.


>
> Thank you for admiting the 64bit version is way behind to the point that you
> recommend the 32bit one.

I see nothing wrong with that. If the majority of people use x86
Ubuntu, then it only makes sense for it to be the best supported. If
x86 is better supported and you have no compelling reason to use
x86_64, then the obvious choice is x86. And there is absolutely
nothing wrong with that.

>It proves my point that it is in need of a lot of
> work.

But it doesn't show that work should be done in place of other work.
You're arguing in circles here. You're not listening to what you have
been told.


> >>That talk sounds like the modern
> >>day Microsoft.
> >
> >What's with the MS hate? This goes for everyone. It comes off as quite
> >childish. "Ooo, Microsoft did A! We MUST do ^A otherwise we are
> >EBIL!". Drop the boogy-man. It's not productive. It can serve as a
> >(somewhat) decent guideline occasionally (very rarely?), but let's not
> >go overboard and make it an infallible litmus test. It's especially
> >amusing coming from a Hotmail address with MSN advertisements as a
> >signature:
> >
>
> I have had this account for 9 years. Some people I have known since my days
> in VChat have it. Just because I prefer to continue to use it does not mean
> I agree with Microsoft. I trust Microsoft as far as I can comfortably spit a
> dead rat.

I don't recall saying otherwise. I was pointing out the irony, which
seems to utterly escape you.

> But I still don't agree with you saying you can dictate what operating
> system anyone uses.

I still don't recall saying that. I think this is the problem. You
aren't listening to what other people are saying.