Should I fall back to 32 bit?

[cantormath]

benben;1460473 Wrote: 
> Hi everyone!

> 

> I have a Pentium D pc and a few weeks ago I finally made the transition
> 

> to Ubuntu Linux AMD64 version from Windows.

> 

> However, it also comes with a number of 64 bit incompatibility issues 

> which to this date I am unable to solve. For example, the Intel
> graphics 

> driver does not do any hardware acceleration, SCIM does not work on 

> OpenOffice, I can't play a number of media such as flash and wmv.

> 

> I was forced to set up a vmware server on top of which runs a windows
> as 

> backup.

> 

> So I decided maybe I should give 32 bit Linux a try. Perhaps that'd 

> solve some of the problems. But on the other hand I am concerned about
> 

> the performance impact it would bring.

> 

> So what would you guys say? Should I stay with AMD64 or switch to x86?
> 

> To what scale would the performance impact be, and what things I shall
> 

> be careful with?

> 

> Regards,

> Ben

> 

> 

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I thought you could run some stuff as 64 bit and some as 32.


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cantormath