[mdlug] Semi-OT: Another BIG WinVista misstep

[Clinton V. Weiss]

Wolfger, your points are almost identical to my thoughts on the
subject.  In December I bought an AMD64 and promptly installed Ubuntu
for 64bit - and I found way too many things missing.  Flash, Java,
Wine were all just not "ready".  So for a few months I dabbled with
Gentoo and, through dozens and dozens of hours of work, got everything
mostly working.  With this newest release of Ubuntu, I thought I'd
give it a shot.  I downloaded both the AMD64 Ubuntu and the default
32bit Ubuntu and installed the AMD version first.  Still no go on
Wine!  So I dropped in the 32bit and everything just works -
wonderfully as a matter of fact.  And performance is quite comparable
to what I had going with Gentoo.

To sum it up - 64bit is nice and all, but I'm more of a "just get the
damn thing to work without wasting my time" kind of guy, and got tired
of Gentoo.  I'll go with what works quickly and works well, and if
thats a 32bit distro, then so be it.

On 5/10/07, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Linux has been 64-bit ready for more than a decade now
>
> Uh... define "Linux" and "ready". Sure, the kernel's been 64 bit and
> stable for a long time. If you define "Linux" as being an entire
> distro (and I do), then it's not quite perfect yet. I got an AMD 64 a
> couple years ago, and installed a 64-bit Linux distro, and it had some
> fairly serious (for my uses) issues. I lived with them for a while,
> but wound up going back to a 32 bit system to avoid the headaches.
> With the arrival yesterday of my new Athlon64 x2 I decided to
> re-install Mepis as 64-bit, and I haven't discovered anything not
> working yet. But I understand that there's still no Java-for-browsers
> unless you go with a 32 bit browser. So if half the apps you regularly
> use are 32-bit, are you really running a 64-bit system?
>
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