In message of 21 Dec, "Alan Pope" <[email protected]> wrote: > 2008/12/21 David King <[email protected]>: > > I do not see why more people do not use 64-bit operating systems. The > > CPUs on all new PCs are now 64-bit, so why not have 64-bit OS? > > Because (on my laptop) there's zero benefit to running 64-bit version > of the OS and there are some gotchas with a few things either not > working or requiring enough faff to get working that it's > annoying/frustrating/timeconsuming to do it.
Without measuring anything, 64-bit Ubuntu definitely feels a little faster than 32-bit. But I agree with the other criticisms of the present state of some of the offered applications. > I ran 64-bit Ubuntu for 6 months and now have reverted back to 32-bit. Fortunately I can keep both available under VMware Fusion on a mac pro. > My laptop has 4GB of RAM but there's a flaw in that it will only show > 3.3GB to the OS, whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit. No such problem here. -- Tim powys-lybbe [email protected] For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
