[Eug-lug] amd64 or x86?

[Jared Ubelhor]

x86 for sure. x64 is just a big pain in the ass with no benifits that I
could see. "Woot! Opera switches tabs .000001 seconds faster!"

On 8/15/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
>
> A question for those of you who have 64-bit capable processors: Do you
> run an "amd64" or "x86" distro?
>
> I run x86 on my desktop, and have no problems.  I run amd64 on my
> laptop.  It has hardware incompatibilties galore (mostly from the
> video chip, ATI FireGL 5250).  I've got an alternate x86 root on a USB
> drive, and it still has most of the compatibility issues.  The biggest
> difference is that Adobe's flash plugin works on x86.
>
> So what are the rest of you running, and why?
>
> --
> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
>                                         kbob at jogger-egg.com
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