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Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linuxGood advice: never give anybody 64 bit linuxPosted Apr 15, 2008 4:44 UTC (Tue) by dank (subscriber, #1865)Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)
The article is fine IMHO. Anybody who foists 64 bit linux off on any normal user deserves what they get, an unhappy user. People who want things to Just Work should stick to 32 bit Linux for now, it's much better debuggged. With 64 bits, desktop apps are not quite ready yet.
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Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:21 UTC (Tue) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link] I have to say, I disagree. My 64-bit Mandriva 2008.0 system runs really well. Also, with 32-bit, I couldn't use the 8GB of RAM that it contains! (Actually, the main reason for going 64-bit is to allow firefox to address > 2 GB of swap; now fx can leak up to 16 GB of memory before it crashes...)
Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux Posted Apr 15, 2008 8:16 UTC (Tue) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link] Do you have any /specific/ examples dank?
Good advice: never give anybody 64 bit linux Posted Apr 15, 2008 8:50 UTC (Tue) by andikleen (guest, #39006) [Link] > Anybody who foists 64 bit > linux off on any normal user deserves what they get, That is what i meant in my earlier post with some distributions who have sub-standard 64bit compat implementations giving 64bit Linux a bad name. I bet the experience of that poster (or who he read that experience from if it's not first hand) didn't come from a properly multilib'ed distribution.
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