On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:20 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:54:08PM +0000, fuf wrote: > > Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year and didn't knew > > which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as thought that old comp. > > didn't take amd64. > > i386-netinst Debian 12 was being installed perfectly, and later I could to > > read a disk owned to the comp.: > > CPU > > Support Processor Intel Sandy Bridge (Dual core / Quad core) (optional) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge > > Instruction set x86-64 > Instructions x86, x86-64 > > You could run amd64 on this machine. Right now, you have a choice > between the two, but some distributions have already dropped support > for i386. amd64 would be the more future-proof choice.
amd64 is probably the better choice, as Greg points out. On the good side, amd64 also has twice the registers, and can perform 64-bit math. Both usually make software run faster. On the downside, 64-bit increases memory pressures. Also see x32, <https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port>. It takes advantage of amd64 benefits, and tries to reduce the memory pressures. Jeff
