On 01/04/2013 04:16 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Thanks to Rich's post in Plug-talk, I had a closer look at the cpu
> section of lshw for my test machine. I never noticed that I have a 64
> bit processor before this morning. Since it's intended as a test
> machine, I'm thinking of swapping out the hard drive for another one I
> have and trying an install of 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Any gotchas I should be watching out for?
>
> Thanks.
>
Only that if you to run 32-bit software (steam, skype, for example) ,
you will need to install the 32-bit compatibility libraries. Otherwise,
you shouldn't notice any differences. Depending on how much RAM you
have and what apps you run, 64-bit can be a bit faster for some tasks.
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