<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Dotan Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Have you tried using Wine on 64 bit? Some apps work, some don't.<br></blockquote><div><br>First I heard of that. But I don't do too much fancy with Wine. Mostly games and such. Everything *I* have tried works the same as under 32-bit.<br>
<br>I suppose you have a reference you could point us to? That way we could look at that and see if something important to us is impacted.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Flash? I don't know about *buntu 9.10 (I personally use 32 bit) but in<br>
9.04 installing Flash on 64 bit was a headache.</blockquote><div><br>I don't remember any headache with 9.04. You *did* have to wait for the 64-bit Linux to get released, or else use the Alpha.<br><br>With 9.10, Flash 64-bit is the standard, nothing special to do.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Does Virtualbox still<br>
have problems with 64 bit?<br></blockquote><div><br>I think you have to be running 64-bit host for 64-bit guests. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Now tell me, what advantage does 64 bit have?</blockquote><div><br>Basically, you don't have to jump through any hoops to use all your RAM.<br><br>Otherwise, as others have posted, some things run much faster as 64-bit and some don't.<br>
<br>Plus, you are still restricted to running lots of 32-bit apps.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Sure, a user _might_not_<br>
have any problems with 64 bit, but then again he might. Why take that<br>
risk when 32 bit works fine?<br></blockquote><div><br>You might not have any problems if you go to sites that use Flash, but you might. Why take the risk?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
The final straw for me is that many tutorials and guides directed at<br>
*buntu users assume 32 bit. The user saves himself quite a headache by<br>
stickin with 32 bit, even with 4 GB RAM.<br></blockquote><div><br>I can't imagine anything along these lines being different, until you get into programming. And the hoops you would have to jump through to try 64-bit programming on a 32-bit system seem crazy to even contemplate.<br>
<br clear="all"></div></div>As far as I can tell, last year I needed to install extra packages (like 64-bit Flash) on my own.<br><br>Now, I don't need to do anything special.<br><br>My only complaint is that there aren't as many 64-bit applications around, like Firefox.<br>
<br>-- <br>John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own<br><br>