unit3 wrote:
> Sure, the average user won't notice a difference, but I certainly have,
> and I wouldn't go back. I certainly haven't had the problems with 64 bit
> installs that everyone's been reporting here. With the minor exception
> of remembering to do package updates in my 32bit chroot environment, I
> find that there's really not much requiring more work on 64bit than
> 32bit. And, I can safely say that a 64bit install of Linux is massively
> less painful than one of Windows. ;)
Slackware 64 vs. 32-bit Slackware worked out like this for me:
nVidia card worked fine (ATI card did NOT).
Cedega/wine could not work for sound inside 64-bit Linux.
Everything else ran same or marginally faster (yay for register
arguments!), mostly noticable on multi-threaded applications. 32-bit
didn't see much of a boost.
It was also nice not to have to turn on highmem support.
Received on Wed Apr 18 20:21:26 2007
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