Nifty Fedora Mitch <niftyfedora <at> niftyegg.com> writes:
Two things: wireless and firefox plugins work smoother on 32 bit for
me.
I don't see how wireless would be relates to 32-bit vs. 64-bit at all. As for
browser plugins, that's what nspluginwrapper is for.
If your laptop disk is not massive, pairs of 32 and 64 bit libs could
add
up and prove problematic for disk space.
That's why Fedora does not install 32-bit multilibs by default now, so you can
install only those you actually need (e.g. yum install nspluginwrapper.i386 if
you want to use 32-bit browser plugins).
Also since this is a laptop it is possible that the low power cpu,
small
processor cache, memory and disk subsystems would limit any performance
improvement that 64bit objects might gain.
F9 x86_64 works just fine on my laptop.
Laptops these days have just as much RAM as desktops (usually between 1 and 4
GB). Also because Vi$ta is really memory-hungry and modern laptops are designed
to run it.
Kevin Kofler