On 9/7/20 4:44 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I switched from Windows when Squeeze was current and was working with a > mix of 32 and 64 bit machines. To simplify my life I used and continue > to use the i386 flavor of Debian. > > I have two underlying questions: > 1. As everything I currently use runs fine, what would I gain by > switching to amd64 flavor?
You'll be able to use more RAM, CPU's registers. On the other hand some software vendors do not support x86 anymore - example: Google Chrome > 2.What 32 bit utilities are there to identify the hardware capabilities > of a particular machine? > lscpu lspci lsusb lshw HTH Kind regards Georgi