Re: [fedora-my] To x86_64 or not to x86_64, that is the head scratching question.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Johann Amin <johann(a)akiss.com.my> wrote:
This has been a recurring question for me over the past 4~5 years
now.
I've been popping this question every year and the conventional wisdom
to the question seems to change every year.
5 years ago, AMD was the only x86 64bit capable CPU. Conventional wisdom
of that time was "Don't bother with x86_64".
4 years ago, Intel Core2 Duo come around. Conventional wisdom of that
time was "There is not enough 64bit software around. Don't bother with
x86_64".
there're lots of program and tools for 64-bit nowadays, not to mention that
there is already 32-bit library for campatibility with 64-bit os. Correct me
if i'm wrong but i've been using 64-bit gnu/linux since 2008. Slightly
faster than using 32-bit gnu/linux. I'm not saying which one because that
would be OT
2~3 years ago, conventional wisdom was "Most people don't
use/have more
than 2GB~3GB of RAM. Don't bother with x86_64.".
If you have more than 3 GiB, why not?
Last years conventional wisdom was, "64bit Drivers & Adobe
Flash support
is lacking. most commercial software & games are still 32bit. Don't
bother with x86_64 if they are important to you.".
There's a 64-bit flash plugin now
I'm just generalizing things as most if not all the reasons
given
applied back in 2005 itself, but as the years rolled on, problems ceased
to be relevant or have been addressed.
So I ask my fellow Fedorians, if you were to convert a Windows user
(fully Linux or dual-boot), hand out a Live-CD/Install media, conduct a
demo/show on or about Linux today, would you be using the x86_64 edition
or still play it safe with i[356]86 edition?
never tested 64-bit live cd
A secondary question would be, "Is i[356]86 still relevant with
the
majority of today's hardware?"
own opinion; yes. Not everyone is upgrading their computer.
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