64 bits overkill? [LWN.net]

64 bits overkill?

Posted Apr 14, 2008 23:23 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: 64 bits overkill? by man_ls
Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

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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