Hi Marc, On 05/03/16 12:49, [email protected] wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > A long time Debian user I still have friends asking me where to find a 64bit > distro to run on INTEL processors. When pointing out that the AMD64 distro is > the way to go I always got questions why it is named AMD64 vs. i386. I agree. Had tried it on an IT-savvy close relative. > Users normally do associate Intel and AMD to be two different sets. > > Could this information on the website be made available more prominently? > Directly on the download locations of the "how to get Debian" instead of the > wiki or the FAQ? I tend to agree that what may people let associate "Debian" with "for geeks" or "difficult" may in parts be outside the distribution. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop has fewer platforms to distinguish, nonetheless, one should possibly learn from them. > It would be interesting to have a look at todays downloads, I suspect that > the 32 bit versions are still more prominent. No, not really. You can see some stats on http://popcon.debian.org/ which finds amd64 to now have more installations than i386 ever had.
To me, the best way to install Debian is anyway to do it together with a friend who had done it before. Cheers, Steffen
