I'm about to upgrade my Mandriva 2010 to 2011 and want to decide if I should go to 64 bit. I know that years ago, when the first 64 bit versions came out there were alot of problems (drivers, flash, Firefox ...). In any case, I never bothered to check each time I updated and stayed with 32. Today, I Googled the problem and found conflicting opinions. Some say no problems, others mention Firefox or video cards, and some even claim 32 is faster than 64 because of smaller memory pointers. My guess is that the pointer thing is really not significant, but I may be wrong. To be clear, this is a desktop machine, not used for development or programing, so compilers, etc aren't relevant. I also don't have >4 Gb of memory, so the memory addressing advantage of 64 bit is also not relevant.
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