On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu > > but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the > > level of customization that I can do with it. > > Well then, welcome back. > > <SNIP> > > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ > > advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? > > I run an amd64 as my desktop system. It' started as my 3rd machine so > at the time it was 64-bit for fun. today I just live with it. There > are some limitations on the 64-bit platform with web-based media, but > beyond that I find 32 and 64-bit machines to be pretty similar in > performance. I run old windows games under Wine on 64-bit and they > work OK. I think Flash and Java have been the two larger issues for me > over time. A few win32codec issues also. However if I wanted to get > around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not > that motivated. > > If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I > see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll > probably be fine. I use a 64 bit myself and have done so ever since I got tired of running 32bit and wasting half my CPU. I recommend running a 32bit firefox, but other than that, there's no real problems here. Wine seems to run a little better in 64 bit than I've seen it perform on other systems but it's hard to be sure. Anyhow, just wanted to say I switched from 64 to 32 originally, as Mark suggested, and switched back very quickly. I don't know if the speed really changed, but it made me feel better about myself. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
