64-bit - Not recommended for daily desktop usage

Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Sat Jun 12 00:26:34 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Manpreet Singh Dhillon
<mdwaps at gmail.com> wrote:
> In general using 64 Bit system has nothing to do with daily computing
> or daily desktop usage.
> Because a daily desktop user will rarely use applications which are
> not in 64 Bit architecture, and almost all other popular applications
> are already imported to 64 Bit architecture.
> I'm using 64 Bit versions of Ubuntu since 7.10 and I've never gotten
> into any problem, plus to utilize more than 3 GB RAM 64 bit OS is
> required.
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10 June 2010 19:16, Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> wrote:
>>>> Today, I came across this description for 64-bit Ubuntu, at Ubuntu's
>>>> site:
>>>>
>>>> "64-bit - Not recommended for daily desktop usage".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why the 64-bit version is "not recommended for daily desktop usage"?
>>>
>>> Perhaps because 64 bit flash is no longer available from Adobe.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>
>> They cut it because of the cracker hole?
>> Adobe is a blight on open source and computing in general.
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We've covered this a good <rather large number> times before.

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