Kerry wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 15:07 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
It's astounding how many problems people on 64bit architectures seem
to get when they're trying to use codecs and Flash, etc. Sad that the
state of the art is so far behind. We've had 64bit OSs for quite a
while now, and finally we're seeing consumer hardware that actually
needs it (primarily large RAM installs) ... and all we're left with is
this lack of support from the proprietary software crowd.
-jim
Hmmm, I would have thought most of the issues with 64 bit architectures
would have been sorted out by now. I'm looking at buying a newish
desktop pc and have been tossing up between a couple of ex-lease jobbies
- the one I was more keen on is 64bit and as this is going to be used by
the family to play online flash games, stream music, watch youtube etc,
would I be better off with the 32 bit option?
Kerry
Is it not that the issues are related to whether you install a 64bit or
32bit OS? As opposed to whether you have a 64bit processor? And that
you can avoid the problems with flash etc by installing a 32bit distro
on your 64bit hardware, thereby having the flexibility of changing to
54bit once those issues are resolved?
Cheers,
Roger
