Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-10-20 08:24 (UTC-0500):
...I've seen no advantage in switching to 64 bit even
though my machines have 64 bit processors.
It stops people from being incredulous and asking you why you're a luddite. :-)
64bit has several disadvantages I can think of:
1-poorly suited to limited RAM environments (1GB or less)
2-generally more to download at updates time
3-more storage space consumed
4-needs additional software to enable running legacy apps unavailable for 64bit
5-reduces developer pool required to keep perfectly good old hardware functional
6-causes support for important apps to die (e.g. Firefox post-ESR requires Rust)
You assume that 1 GB RAM old system is suited for today's software, old
machines should use up to a certain level of new software, there will be
a point where code and will not be compatible with old PCs, hardware
parts will ran out and other disadvantages, but I'm all for using things
efficiently, up to the point they can't be maintained or repaired but
that has specific requirement you must watch, and is not the fault of
64-bit development, which is the inevitable future of code; key word
future, new better hardware, so 64-bit development doesn't have to
comply with old hardware at all, if you have such an old hardware, you
should use everything 32-bit, and you still have a good run ahead, you
can get 32-bit Win8.1 which is better and more efficient than Win7 and
I'd really try to upgrade to 2 GB RAM at least, on DDR2 or older RAM,
you can still find the part I think, it's important to try to keep up
and not just blame all on new software development that are simply
generationally incompatible with old hardware
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