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last time i tried a 64 bit distro (it was probably ubuntu) it was buggy and half baked. are the current 64 bit distros good enough that i should switch from 32 bit? what 64 bit distro do you recommend
I use OpenSuSE. Damn good distro, and among the best KDE integration around. It's GNOME integration is damn good too.
Why should there be a difference between 64 bit and 32 bit?
It's the same code, just compiled two different ways...
Yes but you need 64 bit drivers for most hardware I assume. Thats not a problem if you are using open source drivers, however, the majority of drivers are not open source, as far as I am aware.
do they have 64 bit chrome?
$file /opt/google/chrome/chrome
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, BuildID[sha1]=0x30554b657174efbde93dfc16a5015f6801c95b7f, stripped
Furthermore, RedHat no longer builds all packages for their 32-bit RHEL 6, but does for 64-bit RHEL 6, so truly "32 < 64".The 64 bit versions of CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 are rock solid.
That's Ubuntu. 12.10, right now, FI, is still buggy as all Hell. It's an artifact of their development cycle (megafreeze + latest updates).last time i tried a 64 bit distro (it was probably ubuntu) it was buggy and half baked. are the current 64 bit distros good enough that i should switch from 32 bit? what 64 bit distro do you recommend
thanks everyone. i just got mint 64 bit and its fine. im surprised that it seems to take up twice as much memory (about 2 gigs vs 1 gig for 32 bit)
No way that's possible.thanks everyone. i just got mint 64 bit and its fine. im surprised that it seems to take up twice as much memory (about 2 gigs vs 1 gig for 32 bit)
How did you measure that?
just using the system monitor. i guess memory usage goes up and down a lot. 32 bit never used 2 gigs. right now ive got one chrome window open with six tabs and im using over a gig