Well, to me, there was some hassle, but frankly its not that great. Just
recently I've installed Kubuntu 8.04, 64bit version on my office desktop
(some new Dell machine). I don't remember anything too special I needed
to mess with.
Also, things are improving with time so I guess bad experiences from the
past are becoming more and more - a thing of the past (like Linux usage
in general, which is becoming more convenient, skipping the need to be a
rocket scientist to get a common and useful functionality out of it).
Boaz.
Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/7/5 Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Usually you'll come quite quickly on a need for the 32bit libraries, be it
for (I'm not sure I'm correct or updated with all my examples) Flash plug-in
for your browser (or other browser issues, like firebug extension, although
I think in FF3 this is solved), Sun Java JRE and some other propriety or
closed source applications/libraries (perhaps skype client as well, for
sound device usage, not sure).
In any case, I don't think there's any harm from installing those libraries
so I guess that either way is safe and ok to go.
My personal experience is that 64 bit (7.10 and 8.04) on Desktop
wasn't worth the hassle if you want to use proprietary software -
Flash never worked well (non-Adobe aren't there yet) and other
proprietary software (Picasa, possibly Google Earth but this week I
noticed that they have 64-bit version for that) also was a hassle to
install and then didn't work (don't remember details). I since
switched to 32-bit and forgot all about it.
Back when I had 64 bit, I followed all sorts of how-to's on getting
things working with it and it never was right (e.g. Flash never
worked).
Now with 32 bit on my desktop and laptop, I don't see any
disadvantages (it doesn't feel any slower and it can make use of the
2Gb RAM I have).
I don't use my desktops for C/C++ development. I do most of my dev in
Perl now and use (64bit) CentOS servers for production deployment.
Your requirements may vary.
--Amos
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