64 bit is stable for ages.I use it exclusively and I have no real problems with it.
If you have 3+ gb ram, go for it. Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Hendrik Boom" <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 20:14 Subject: 32 or 64 bits for the end user. To: <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:03:04AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:55:34PM -0600 Jaime Ochoa Malagón said: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com>wrote: > > > > > Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. > > > > > > I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been > > > running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I get to install debian > > > for an end-user on another AMD-64 machine. 64-bit mode is tempting, but: > > > > > > Are there still significant end-user problems for 64-bit Debian? The > > > machine has nvidia graphics on the motherboard (I believe). My user is > > > likely to want to use flash, which has always been a problem in Linux, > > > but ... Is it still even more of a problem in 64-bit mode? > > > > > > Any other likely end-user problems? > > > > > > I think you could use it for an end user... > > > > Really few problems right now just try... > > (text reformatted to bring reply below) > > I have been using the 64-bit port since March 2006. Flash was not > available at the time. I must point out that I am a user who enjoys the > benefits that Debian brings and am thus prepared to put up with a few > cons. > > Flash stopped being a problem at least two years ago - I could be wrong > there, it may be even longer than that. I have no reason to regret my > choice of using the 64-bit port. And, I may add, I am a non-technical user. Thanks. I'm a technical user myself, so it's essential I get advice from a non-technical user before I subject my wife to it. -- hendrik. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110322181450.ga13...@topoi.pooq.com
