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64 bits overkill?64 bits overkill?Posted Apr 14, 2008 23:05 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: All distributions do it wrong (for someone).. by smoogen Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet) Stupid question: why install a 64-bit version for your parents? My mother's laptop runs fine with 32 bits.
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64 bits overkill? Posted Apr 14, 2008 23:23 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] I think 64 bits is overkill. In my case, I just installed the latest 'desktop' friendly 32 bit Linux at the time.. which turned out to be not desktop friendly enough. They could not use their bank, they could not get into some .gov sites (this was while adobe was dithering on upgrading flash to linux), the grandkids could not play the website games they wanted.. etc. The questions are the same though.. and would have told me that a 64 bit was not appropriate and that their main websites were not supported.
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